PHP/AJAX - Any way to Upload or transfer files from Ajax to folder

pizzipie · 07-18-2023, 06:38 PM

I have an object containing image files(jpg, png, etc) that I send via AJAX to a program that, hopefully, can upload all the files to a target folder. All I can find in any documentation is that you have to have a "multipart/form-data" form type="file" to submit one file at a time via submitting. I am trying to process 7000 files(re-naming, re-sizing etc) so this obviously will not work.

I tried to copy() the files but that doesn't work.

Thanks in advance for help in trying to make this work.

R

Code:

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "upload3.php",
  data: { ajaxArr }
});
 // ==============================
 

//upload3.php

$imageArr=$_POST['ajaxArr'];

for($i=0; $i<count($imageArr); $i++) {
	echo $i.". ".$imageArr[$i]."<br>";
}

dugan · 07-18-2023, 06:43 PM

Quote:

I am trying to process 7000 files

You only need to upload one file. Have the web form take an archive.

If you're going to insist on a) having a web-based interface for this, and b) uploading individual files, then you obviously don't want browser-based UI. Just have a URL that takes uploads via cURL.

pizzipie · 07-18-2023, 09:22 PM

Thanks for the reply.

Quote:

Just have a URL that takes uploads via cURL.

What does this mean relative to what I'm doing?

I have dozens of CD's + external hard drives. I want to process each of them Directory by Directory not deal with 7000 at once.

At present I use a Select Box to choose multiple files and then send them as an array-like object via AJAX to program called upload3.php. In the Ajax call the url is upload3.php.

If I use cURL how do I send these files to, say, the "/home/rick/Desktop/A52_Photos/2023/July" directory.

NevemTeve · 07-18-2023, 11:29 PM

I think Ajax is JavaScript, so it has nothing to do with PHP.
Try these:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/featur...ost-method.php
https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

sundialsvcs · 07-19-2023, 08:55 AM

NevemTeve (and for the "peanut gallery"), "AJAX" effectively refers to a form of "remote procedure call" using the HTTP protocol asynchronously. The requests are initiated and completed using JavaScript "behind the scenes."

You cannot directly send "files" this way, AFAIK, but the OP could use JavaScript commands to initiate individual file-upload requests to the server, having first been supplied with the list of files by means of an AJAX-initiated reply.