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PHP AJAX Image Upload
by Vincy. Last modified on June 1st, 2021.
Uploading image via an AJAX function is easy and simple to implement in out page. In a previous tutorial, we have seen PHP image upload example without AJAX.
In this example, I have added code for doing PHP image upload with AJAX without reloading the page.
I use jQuery AJAX to implement image upload. There is a form with file input field and a submit button.
On submitting the form with the selected image file, the AJAX script will be executed. In this code, it sends the upload request to PHP with the uploaded image.
PHP code moves the uploaded image to the target folder and returns the image HTML to show the preview as an AJAX response.
After uploading an image via AJAX, we are showing preview for the uploaded image in the target div as shown below.
HTML Image Upload Form
The following code shows the HTML for the image upload form. On submitting this form the AJAX function will be called to send the request to the PHP image upload code.
<form id="uploadForm" action="upload.php" method="post"> <label>Upload Image File:</label><br/> <input name="userImage" type="file" class="inputFile" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="btnSubmit" /> </form>
PHP Image Upload via AJAX Method
This code shows the ajax() function used to send the file upload request by posting the FormData instance. In PHP, it uploads the file to the specified path.
After successful image upload, it will print the uploaded image HTML as the AJAX in response. Then, this will be added to a target DIV to show the preview for the users.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function (e){
$("#uploadForm").on('submit',(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
url: "upload.php",
type: "POST",
data: new FormData(this),
contentType: false,
cache: false,
processData:false,
success: function(data){
$("#targetLayer").html(data);
},
error: function(){}
});
}));
});
</script>
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Thanks a lot sir !!!
yesterday i was searching for such type of coding for by website for images upload but i want something more in this coding i want to resize the image size before submit. Please help me….
can you give me its corrosponding php file
Thank u. Your code really helpful for me.
i have one more doubt. want develop a php project for fingerprint recognition. This possible or not. I was searched more sites, but most members say not possible. So i Want clear answer for this question vincy…
Nice work!
Only say, please, change blog font, it’s very difficult to read
thanks alot 4 dis code… realy its working…
Thanks for sharing such nice article. It works like charm.
Thanks for this useful code. There is a problem with end tag in the HTML code. Please fix it.
Most people mentioned that you can’t do this via ajax but I tried this and works fine for me. Thank you for the simple and nice code.
Thanks for the simple but elegant code, without a lot of clutter it was easy to incorporate in my system with mysql insertion. For those that need size and type…
$sourcePath = $_FILES[‘userImage’][‘tmp_name’];
$ImageSize = $_FILES[‘userImage’][‘size’];
$ImageType = $_FILES[‘userImage’][‘type’];
will you please share your mysql code with me. i am trying inserting operation in this thats work but image name is not getting into database.
Hello, can you share your full php file for this
This code is very helpful but I need one more thing, I want to store image in MySql database and fetch them again according to need. but thank you for this code.
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Oh, man! You are damn genius! Two days I’m trying to find some solution, i used jqueryform library, visited many sites, but decided the only problem here! Thank you!
wow thanks a lot sir. i find this method.. thankss
can you give this code in java?
Amit, sorry I do not code in Java :(
how about if we want to preview image before send request to server, i mean we want to check look and feel image in the browser before actually send or upload to the server.
addition to this could i do upload multiple images to server with this?
Hi Mexanots (Nice name :-)
What you have asked is available as part of another tutorial that is linked in this article.
nice to meet you vincy
Nice to e-meet you too Kunal :-)
Mam i need same type but small change as gives image upload path complete with directory location
Sivaramaiah, you just need to supply the path you need on upload.
Thank you, I want to update image using Ajax in Laravel. Please help
Sure, I will add a new article. Keep watching Ayush.
Wooooooonderful
Thank you wonderful.