Uploading an image with rackspace - php

Question

So i have the following codes that uploads an image to the dir /uploads.
<?php
// If you want to ignore the uploaded files,
// set $demo_mode to true;
$demo_mode = false;
$upload_dir = 'uploads/';
$allowed_ext = array('jpg','jpeg','png','gif');
if(strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) != 'post'){
exit_status('Error! Wrong HTTP method!');
}
if(array_key_exists('pic',$_FILES) && $_FILES['pic']['error'] == 0 ){
$pic = $_FILES['pic'];
if(!in_array(get_extension($pic['name']),$allowed_ext)){
exit_status('Only '.implode(',',$allowed_ext).' files are allowed!');
}
if($demo_mode){
// File uploads are ignored. We only log them.
$line = implode('', array( date('r'), $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $pic['size'], $pic['name']));
file_put_contents('log.txt', $line.PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
exit_status('Uploads are ignored in demo mode.');
}
// Move the uploaded file from the temporary
// directory to the uploads folder:
if(move_uploaded_file($pic['tmp_name'], $upload_dir.$pic['name'])){
exit_status('File was uploaded successfuly!');
}
}
exit_status('Something went wrong with your upload!');
// Helper functions
function exit_status($str){
echo json_encode(array('status'=>$str));
exit;
}
function get_extension($file_name){
$ext = explode('.', $file_name);
$ext = array_pop($ext);
return strtolower($ext);
}
?>
I tried to change the code a bit. So instead of uploading to the directory, i wanted it to upload to my rackspace. I am using the following codes (which works with my other file uploads)
// cloud info
$username = ""; // username
$key = ""; // api key
// Connect to Rackspace
$auth = new CF_Authentication($username, $key);
$auth->authenticate();
$conn = new CF_Connection($auth);
// Get the container we want to use
$container = $conn->get_container('ContainerName');
// store file information
$localfile = $_FILES['pic']['tmp_name'];
$filename = $_FILES['pic']['name'];
// upload file to Rackspace
$object = $container->create_object($filename);
$object->load_from_filename($localfile);
?>
I replaced the part where the image uploads to the dir /upload to the above one. It's not working.
I am using this HTML5 drag & drop uploader.
http://tutorialzine.com/2011/09/html5-file-upload-jquery-php/
Help please.

Answer 1

I had a problem similar to this. The issue I had was that the object doesn't have the file type associated with it. Someone probably can explain it better as I am a PHP newb, but this is what I used for it to work for me:
$object = $container->create_object($filename);
$object->content_type = "image/jpeg"; //This is where the issue is
$object->load_from_filename($localfile);