I'm trying to do uploading from my Ionic App to the codeigniter Rest Server but the image cannot be previewed when I open it. I'm referring to this tutorial to do the uploading from the app side https://www.djamware.com/post/5ae9c9ca80aca714d19d5b9f/ionic-3-angular-5-and-cordova-base64-image-upload-example
Here is my code from Ionic App:
img = { "data":"", "user_id":"" };
getPhoto() {
let options = {
maximumImagesCount: 1
};
this.imagePicker.getPictures(options).then((results)=>{
for(let i=0; i < results.length; i++){
this.imgPreview = results[i];
this.base64.encodeFile(results[i]).then((base64File: string) => {
this.img.data = base64File;
this.status = true;
}, (err) => {
console.log(err);
});
}
});
}
// Function to submit the data to rest api
UploadImages(){
this.restProvider.postAction('my-rest-api-url', this.img).then((data)=>{
this.msg = JSON.stringify(data['img']);
this.restProvider.triggerToastMsg('Images uploaded to gallery.');
});
}
From my Rest Server in Codeigniter side :
function uploadImage_post(){
$postdata = file_get_contents("php://input");
$data = json_decode($postdata);
if(!empty($data)){
$img = $data->data;
$imgStr = substr($img, strpos($img, "base64,") + 7);
$imgData = base64_decode($imgStr);
$imgName = uniqid().'.jpg';
$imgData = array(
'author_id' => $data->user_id,
'file_src' => $imgName,
);
$this->Gallery_model->createMyGallery($imgData);
$root = dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
$dir = $root.'/my-dir-goes-here';
file_put_contents($dir.$imgName, $imgData);
$this->response([
'http_status_code' => REST_Controller::HTTP_OK,
'status' => true,
'statusMsg' => 'OK'
], REST_Controller::HTTP_OK);
}
}
From what you can see on the api side, the $data->data
will resulting the encoded base64 which is something like data:image/*;charset=utf-8;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZjRgA....................
So, in order to remove the data:image/*;charset=utf-8;base64,
I use the substr()
to get the data after it /9j/4AAQSkZjRgA....................
then only I decode it back. I manage to upload it to my server directory but when I tried to open the image, it doesn't open it. It will appear something like image corrupted. The image filesize also just small which is 19 bytes