Sending Data to 2 MySQL tables - FuelPHP / PHP - php

Question

I am adapting StationWagon (FuelPHP app) and so far it's working really well.
I have adapted it (with some help) to allow multiple images to be uploaded to the server. This is also working great.
However, I am thinking it would make more sense if I had 2 Tables: 1) Articles and 2) ArticleImages. I would use a Foreign Key to associate the Images with the Article. So when publishing an article it would add the article data to 'Articles' table and move each image to a new row in 'ArticleImages'.
So ultimately my 'ArticleImages' table could be:
ID | ImageURL | ArticleID
Portion of my 'articles.php' controller:
<?php
public function action_add()
{
$val = Model_Article::validate('add_article'); //<-- maybe its just me but i never saw any similar to this in fuelphp sorry about this if im wrong
// if your form validation is okay than continue with everyhing else
if ($val->run())
{
$article = Model_Article::forge();
// Custom configuration for this upload
$config = array(
'path' => DOCROOT.DS.'images',
'randomize' => true,
'ext_whitelist' => array('img', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'png'),
);
Upload::process($config);
// if a valid file is passed than the function will save, or if its not empty
if (Upload::is_valid())
{
// save them according to the config
Upload::save();
//if you want to save to tha database lets grab the file name
$value = Upload::get_files();
foreach($value as $files) {
print_r($files);
}
$article->filename = $value[0]['saved_as'];
}
$status = (Input::post('save_draft') ? 0 : 1);
if ( ! $val->input('category_id'))
{
$category_id = null;
}
else
{
$category_id = $val->validated('category_id');
}
$article->user_id = $this->user_id;
$article->category_id = $category_id;
$article->title = $val->validated('title');
$article->body = $val->validated('body');
$article->published = $status;
if ($article->save())
{
Session::set_flash('success', 'Article successfully added.');
}
else
{
Session::set_flash('error', 'Something went wrong, '.
'please try again!');
}
Response::redirect('articles/add');
}
$this->template->title = 'Add Article';
$this->template->content = View::forge('articles/add')
->set('categories', Model_Category::find('all'), false)
->set('val', Validation::instance('add_article'), false);
}
/* End of file articles.php */

Answer 1

You are trying to make a relation between Articles and ArticleImages. An ArticleImage belongs to an Article, while an Article has many ArticleImages. FuelPHP has functionality built in for what you are trying to achieve. Have a look at the FuelPHP docs on its Object Relational Mapper, especially the Belongs To and Has Many relations.

Answer 2

So when i made the code for you back a few days a go you only requested, one file input.
And no offense but you are doing it all wrong...
foreach($value as $files) {
print_r($files);
}
$article->filename = $value[0]['saved_as'];
should be
foreach($value as $files) {
$articleimg = Model_Articleimages::forge();
$articleimg->image_row_name = $files['saved_as']
}
To get you to understand
what you did here, $value = Upload::get_files(); yes this gets all the elements but since you need to loop trouh the elements you dont need it
Second
this $value[0]['saved_as'] only grabs the first image name, just the first one, and since you are in a loop now you need to refer to the $files variable as i shown you in the above example, just an example