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JeanAlesi

Is there anything special/different about uploading files from a mobile device vs. from the browser?

I'm making an application that requires users to upload a file through a mobile app... The mobile part will be done by another developer. I must simple prepare the functions so that they can be used by either the mobile application or web-browser.

Namely, do mobile apps (android) user the same $_POST, $_FILES, etc variables when interacting with the server?

thanks

Harro

$_POST and $_FILES are server side variables, constructed by the PHP SAPI. Totally irrelevant with regards to the type of HTTP client used.

PHP expects multipart/form data on a POST, so the app has be be compliant with that, but if the app uses a standard HTTP library to post the data (or the files), that should not be a problem.

And it's easy to test. Create a test controller:

<?php
class Test extends Controller
{
    public function action_index()
    {
        \Log::info(json_encode($_GET));
        \Log::info(json_encode($_POST));
        \Log::info(json_encode($_FILES));
    }
}

and have the android app post some data and upload a file to /test/index.

atabak

i use cordova:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <title>File Transfer Example</title>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">

        document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

        // device is ready
        function onDeviceReady() {
         // Do cool things here...
        }

        function getImage() {
            // Retrieve image file location from specified source
            navigator.camera.getPicture(uploadPhoto, function(message) {
            alert('get picture failed');
        },{
            quality: 50,
            destinationType: navigator.camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
            sourceType: navigator.camera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY
        }
            );

        }

        function uploadPhoto(imageURI) {
            var options = new FileUploadOptions();
            options.fileKey="file";
            options.fileName=imageURI.substr(imageURI.lastIndexOf('/')+1);
            options.mimeType="image/jpeg";

            var params = new Object();
            params.value1 = "test";
            params.value2 = "param";

            options.params = params;
            options.chunkedMode = false;

            var ft = new FileTransfer();
            ft.upload(imageURI, "http://domain.com/upload.php", win, fail, options);
        }

        function win(r) {
            console.log("Code = " + r.responseCode);
            console.log("Response = " + r.response);
            console.log("Sent = " + r.bytesSent);
            alert(r.response);
        }

        function fail(error) {
            alert("An error has occurred: Code = " = error.code);
        }

        </script>
</head>
<body>
    <button onclick="getImage();">Upload a Photo</button>
</body>
</html>

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