**inside the view(as comerciales in my case)**,
<form action= "<?php echo site_url()?>/admin/doupload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" >
<b> Select the image to upload( Maximum size 500 kb, jpg, jpeg): </b>
<input style="color:#00A76F" type="file" name="fileToUpload" id="fileToUpload">
<div class="input-group" style="left:10%;width:85%;">
<input class="btn btn-success pull-right" style="background:#00A76F" type="submit" value="Upload Image" name="submit">
</div>
</form>
<div class="modal-body">
<div id="user_data">
<?php
if (!empty($massage)){
echo $massage ;
}
?>
</div>
**inside the controller define a method**
public function doupload(){
$root1 = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];;
$target_dir = $root1."/nawaloka/uploads/";
// $target_dir = $root1."/nawaloka/application/";
$target_file = $target_dir . basename($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["name"]);
$uploadOk = 1;
$imageFileType = pathinfo($target_file,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
// Check if file already exists
// Check file size
if ($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["size"] > 500000) {
$data['massage']= "Sorry, your file is too large.";
$partials = array('content' => 'Admin/comerciales');
$this->template->load('template/admin_template', $partials,$data);
$uploadOk = 0;
}
if (is_dir($target_dir) && is_writable($target_dir)) {
// do upload logic here
} else {
echo 'Upload directory is not writable, or does not exist.';
}
// Allow certain file formats
if($imageFileType != "jpg" && $imageFileType != "jpeg" ) {
$data['massage']= "Sorry, only JPG, JPEG files are allowed.";
$partials = array('content' => 'Admin/comerciales');
$this->template->load('template/admin_template', $partials,$data);
$uploadOk = 0;
}
// Check if $uploadOk is set to 0 by an error
if ($uploadOk == 0) {
$data['massage']= "Sorry, your file was not uploaded.";
$partials = array('content' => 'Admin/comerciales');
$this->template->load('template/admin_template', $partials,$data);
// if everything is ok, try to upload file
} else {
array_map('unlink', glob("/var/www/html/nawaloka/uploads/*"));
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["tmp_name"],"/var/www/html/nawaloka/uploads/shamith.jpg")) {
$data['massage']= "The image ". basename( $_FILES["fileToUpload"]["name"]). " has been uploaded.";
$partials = array('content' => 'Admin/comerciales');
$this->template->load('template/admin_template', $partials,$data);
//echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES["fileToUpload"]["name"]). " has been uploaded.";
} else {
$data['massage']= "Sorry, there was an error while uploading your file.";
$partials = array('content' => 'Admin/comerciales');
$this->template->load('template/admin_template', $partials,$data);
}
}
}