Uploading file with parameters using Alamofire

Question

I am attempting to upload a file using Alamofire. The upload works fine when using a File (NSUrl), however, I cant seem to figure out how to use the NSData option?

This is what I have as a test:

 var url:NSURL = NSURL.URLWithString("http://localhost:8080/bike.jpeg")

 var err: NSError?
 var imageData :NSData = NSData.dataWithContentsOfURL(url,options: NSDataReadingOptions.DataReadingMappedIfSafe, error: &err)

 Alamofire.upload(.POST, "http://localhost:8080/rest/service/upload/test.png", imageData)
        .progress { (bytesWritten, totalBytesWritten, totalBytesExpectedToWrite) in
            println(totalBytesWritten)
        }
        .responseJSON { (request, response, JSON, error) in
            println(request)
            println(response)
           println(JSON)
 }

I am getting a status code 415?

Also, how can I send across additional params in the upload?

Thanks

EDIT

I wasn't setting the correct Content-Type:

var manager = Manager.sharedInstance
manager.session.configuration.HTTPAdditionalHeaders = ["Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"]


let imageData: NSMutableData = NSMutableData.dataWithData(UIImageJPEGRepresentation(imageTest.image, 30));

Alamofire.upload(.POST, "http://localhost:8080/rest/service/upload?attachmentName=file.jpg",  imageData)
        .progress { (bytesWritten, totalBytesWritten, totalBytesExpectedToWrite) in
            println(totalBytesWritten)
        }
        .responseString { (request, response, JSON, error) in
            println(request)
            println(response)
            println(JSON)
}

Still cant figure out how to send additional parameters along with the upload.

Answer 1

Here is a simple function that requires the target upload url, parameters, and imageData and returns the URLRequestConvertible and NSData that Alamofire.upload requires to upload an image with parameters.

// this function creates the required URLRequestConvertible and NSData we need to use Alamofire.upload
func urlRequestWithComponents(urlString:String, parameters:Dictionary<String, String>, imageData:NSData) -> (URLRequestConvertible, NSData) {

    // create url request to send
    var mutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: urlString)!)
    mutableURLRequest.HTTPMethod = Alamofire.Method.POST.rawValue
    let boundaryConstant = "myRandomBoundary12345";
    let contentType = "multipart/form-data;boundary="+boundaryConstant
    mutableURLRequest.setValue(contentType, forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")



    // create upload data to send
    let uploadData = NSMutableData()

    // add image
    uploadData.appendData("\r\n--\(boundaryConstant)\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
    uploadData.appendData("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"file.png\"\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
    uploadData.appendData("Content-Type: image/png\r\n\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
    uploadData.appendData(imageData)

    // add parameters
    for (key, value) in parameters {
        uploadData.appendData("\r\n--\(boundaryConstant)\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
        uploadData.appendData("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"\(key)\"\r\n\r\n\(value)".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
    }
    uploadData.appendData("\r\n--\(boundaryConstant)--\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)



    // return URLRequestConvertible and NSData
    return (Alamofire.ParameterEncoding.URL.encode(mutableURLRequest, parameters: nil).0, uploadData)
}    

Here's an example of how to use it (see CREATE AND SEND REQUEST):

// init paramters Dictionary
var parameters = [
    "task": "task",
    "variable1": "var"
]

// add addtionial parameters
parameters["userId"] = "27"
parameters["body"] = "This is the body text."

// example image data
let image = UIImage(named: "177143.jpg")
let imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)



// CREATE AND SEND REQUEST ----------

let urlRequest = urlRequestWithComponents("http://example.com/uploadText/", parameters: parameters, imageData: imageData)

Alamofire.upload(urlRequest.0, urlRequest.1)
    .progress { (bytesWritten, totalBytesWritten, totalBytesExpectedToWrite) in
        println("\(totalBytesWritten) / \(totalBytesExpectedToWrite)")
    }
    .responseJSON { (request, response, JSON, error) in
        println("REQUEST \(request)")
        println("RESPONSE \(response)")
        println("JSON \(JSON)")
        println("ERROR \(error)")
}    

And if you need the php file for the target url (with an 'uploads' folder in the same directory):

// get picture variables
$file       = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
$fileName   = $_FILES['file']['name'];
$fileType   = $_FILES['file']['type'];

// check extension
$allowedExts = array("jpg", "jpeg", "png");
$rootName = reset(explode(".", $fileName));
$extension = end(explode(".", $fileName));

// create new file name
$time = time();
$newName = $rootName.$time.'.'.$extension;

// temporarily save file
$moved = move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "uploads/".$newName );
if ($moved) $path = "uploads/".$newName;

$body = $_POST['body'];
$userId = $_POST['userId'];


$time = time();
if ($moved) {
    $fullUrl = "http://antiblank.com/testPhotoUpload/".$path;
    $arrayToSend = array('status'=>'success','time'=>$time,'body'=>$body,'userId'=>$userId, "imageURL"=>$fullUrl);
} else {
    $arrayToSend = array('status'=>'FAILED','time'=>$time,'body'=>$body,'userId'=>$userId);
}

header('Content-Type:application/json');
echo json_encode($arrayToSend);

Answer 2

Upload Photo / File with parameters and custom headers via Swift 3 & 4 and Alamofire 4

// import Alamofire
func uploadWithAlamofire() {
  let image = UIImage(named: "bodrum")!

  // define parameters
  let parameters = [
    "hometown": "yalikavak",
    "living": "istanbul"
  ]

  Alamofire.upload(multipartFormData: { multipartFormData in
    if let imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 1) {
      multipartFormData.append(imageData, withName: "file", fileName: "file.png", mimeType: "image/png")
    }

    for (key, value) in parameters {
      multipartFormData.append((value?.data(using: .utf8))!, withName: key)
    }}, to: "upload_url", method: .post, headers: ["Authorization": "auth_token"],
        encodingCompletion: { encodingResult in
          switch encodingResult {
          case .success(let upload, _, _):
            upload.response { [weak self] response in
              guard let strongSelf = self else {
                return
              }
              debugPrint(response)
            }
          case .failure(let encodingError):
            print("error:\(encodingError)")
          }
  })
}

via Swift 2 and Alamofire 3

  // import Alamofire
  func uploadWithAlamofire() {
    let image = UIImage(named: "myImage")!

    // define parameters
    let parameters = [
      "hometown": "yalikavak",
      "living": "istanbul"
    ]

    // Begin upload
    Alamofire.upload(.POST, "upload_url",
      // define your headers here
      headers: ["Authorization": "auth_token"],
      multipartFormData: { multipartFormData in

        // import image to request
        if let imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 1) {
          multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(data: imageData, name: "file", fileName: "myImage.png", mimeType: "image/png")
        }

        // import parameters
        for (key, value) in parameters {
          multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(data: value.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!, name: key)
        }
      }, // you can customise Threshold if you wish. This is the alamofire's default value
      encodingMemoryThreshold: Manager.MultipartFormDataEncodingMemoryThreshold,
      encodingCompletion: { encodingResult in
        switch encodingResult {
        case .Success(let upload, _, _):
          upload.responseJSON { response in
            debugPrint(response)
          }
        case .Failure(let encodingError):
          print(encodingError)
        }
    })
  }

Current swift version: https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire/blob/master/Documentation/Usage.md#uploading-data-to-a-server

Answer 3

Here is a Solution using Alamofire 3.0 based on antiblanks answer:

 let parameters = [
            "par1": "value",
            "par2": "value2"]    

 let URL = "YOUR_URL.php"

 let image = UIImage(named: "image.png")

 Alamofire.upload(.POST, URL, multipartFormData: {
                multipartFormData in

                if let _image = image {
                    if let imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(_image, 0.5) {
                        multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(data: imageData, name: "file", fileName: "file.png", mimeType: "image/png")
                    }
                }

                for (key, value) in parameters {
                    multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(data: value.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!, name: key)
                }

            }, encodingCompletion: {
                encodingResult in

                switch encodingResult {
                case .Success(let upload, _, _):
                     upload.responseObject { (response: Response<UploadData, NSError>) -> Void in

                     switch response.result {
                     case .Success:
                         completionHandler?(success: true)
                     case .Failure(let error):
                         completionHandler?(success: false)
                     }

                 }
                case .Failure(let encodingError):
                    print(encodingError)
                }
        })

Answer 4

Enhancing EdFunke's answer for Swift 2.2 Alamofire 3.3.1

Alamofire.upload(.POST, urlString, multipartFormData: {
            multipartFormData in
            if let _image = self.profilePic.image {
                if let imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(_image) {
                    multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(data: imageData, name: "user_image", fileName: "file.png", mimeType: "image/png")
                }
            }
            for (key, value) in userInfo {
                multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(data: value.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!, name: key)
            }
            }, encodingCompletion: { encodingResult in
                switch encodingResult {
                case .Success(let upload, _, _):
                    upload.responseJSON { response in
                        debugPrint(response)
                    }
                case .Failure(let encodingError):
                    print(encodingError)
                }
            }
        )

Answer 5

Multipart upload is scheduled to be included with the next (1.3.0) release of Alamofire. In the meantime, using the information in this thread, I've made a class that simplifies uploading files and including additional parameters (regular "inputs") in the request along with one or more files. Without assuming that files are of a particular type or the use of Routers.

FileUploader.swift:

import Foundation
import Alamofire

private struct FileUploadInfo {
  var name:String
  var mimeType:String
  var fileName:String
  var url:NSURL?
  var data:NSData?

  init( name: String, withFileURL url: NSURL, withMimeType mimeType: String? = nil ) {
    self.name = name
    self.url = url
    self.fileName = name
    self.mimeType = "application/octet-stream"
    if mimeType != nil {
      self.mimeType = mimeType!
    }
    if let _name = url.lastPathComponent {
      fileName = _name
    }
    if mimeType == nil, let _extension = url.pathExtension {
      switch _extension.lowercaseString {

      case "jpeg", "jpg":
        self.mimeType = "image/jpeg"

      case "png":
        self.mimeType = "image/png"

      default:
        self.mimeType = "application/octet-stream"
      }
    }
  }

  init( name: String, withData data: NSData, withMimeType mimeType: String ) {
    self.name = name
    self.data = data
    self.fileName = name
    self.mimeType = mimeType
  }
}

class FileUploader {

  private var parameters = [String:String]()
  private var files = [FileUploadInfo]()
  private var headers = [String:String]()

  func setValue( value: String, forParameter parameter: String ) {
    parameters[parameter] = value
  }

  func setValue( value: String, forHeader header: String ) {
    headers[header] = value
  }

  func addParametersFrom( #map: [String:String] ) {
    for (key,value) in map {
      parameters[key] = value
    }
  }

  func addHeadersFrom( #map: [String:String] ) {
    for (key,value) in map {
      headers[key] = value
    }
  }

  func addFileURL( url: NSURL, withName name: String, withMimeType mimeType:String? = nil ) {
    files.append( FileUploadInfo( name: name, withFileURL: url, withMimeType: mimeType ) )
  }

  func addFileData( data: NSData, withName name: String, withMimeType mimeType:String = "application/octet-stream" ) {
    files.append( FileUploadInfo( name: name, withData: data, withMimeType: mimeType ) )
  }

  func uploadFile( request sourceRequest: NSURLRequest ) -> Request? {
    var request = sourceRequest.mutableCopy() as! NSMutableURLRequest
    let boundary = "FileUploader-boundary-\(arc4random())-\(arc4random())"
    request.setValue( "multipart/form-data;boundary=\(boundary)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
    let data = NSMutableData()

    for (name, value) in headers {
      request.setValue(value, forHTTPHeaderField: name)
    }

    // Amazon S3 (probably others) wont take parameters after files, so we put them first        
    for (key, value) in parameters {
      data.appendData("\r\n--\(boundary)\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
      data.appendData("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"\(key)\"\r\n\r\n\(value)".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
    }

    for fileUploadInfo in files {
      data.appendData( "\r\n--\(boundary)\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)! )
      data.appendData( "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"\(fileUploadInfo.name)\"; filename=\"\(fileUploadInfo.fileName)\"\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
      data.appendData( "Content-Type: \(fileUploadInfo.mimeType)\r\n\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
      if fileUploadInfo.data != nil {
        data.appendData( fileUploadInfo.data! )
      }
      else if fileUploadInfo.url != nil, let fileData = NSData(contentsOfURL: fileUploadInfo.url!) {
        data.appendData( fileData )
      }
      else { // ToDo: report error
        return nil
      }
    }

    data.appendData("\r\n--\(boundary)--\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)

    return Alamofire.upload( request, data )
  }

}

It would be used like this:

// This example uploads a file called example.png found in the app resources

let fileURL = NSBundle.mainBundle().URLForResource("example", withExtension: "png")
let fileUploader = FileUploader()
// we can add multiple files
// this would be equivalent to: <input type="file" name="myFile"/>
fileUploader.addFileURL(fileURL!, withName: "myFile")
// we can add NSData objects directly
let data = UIImage(named: "sample")
fileUploader.addFileData( UIImageJPEGRepresentation(data,0.8), withName: "mySecondFile", withMimeType: "image/jpeg" )
// we can also add multiple aditional parameters
// this would be equivalent to: <input type="hidden" name="folderName" value="sample"/>
fileUploader.setValue( "sample", forParameter: "folderName" )
// put your server URL here
var request = NSMutableURLRequest( URL: NSURL(string: "http://myserver.com/uploadFile" )! )
request.HTTPMethod = "POST"
fileUploader.uploadFile(request: request)

Check it out or download from this gist: https://gist.github.com/ncerezo/b1991f8dfac01cb162c0

Answer 6

The code in @antiblank's answer was not working for me. I've made a few changes and it's working now:

func urlRequestWithComponents(urlString:String, parameters:NSDictionary) -> (URLRequestConvertible, NSData) {

    // create url request to send
    var mutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: urlString)!)
    mutableURLRequest.HTTPMethod = Alamofire.Method.POST.rawValue
    //let boundaryConstant = "myRandomBoundary12345"
    let boundaryConstant = "NET-POST-boundary-\(arc4random())-\(arc4random())"
    let contentType = "multipart/form-data;boundary="+boundaryConstant
    mutableURLRequest.setValue(contentType, forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")


    // create upload data to send
    let uploadData = NSMutableData()

    // add parameters
    for (key, value) in parameters {

        uploadData.appendData("\r\n--\(boundaryConstant)\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)

        if value is NetData {
            // add image
            var postData = value as NetData


            //uploadData.appendData("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"\(key)\"; filename=\"\(postData.filename)\"\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)

            // append content disposition
            var filenameClause = " filename=\"\(postData.filename)\""
            let contentDispositionString = "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"\(key)\";\(filenameClause)\r\n"
            let contentDispositionData = contentDispositionString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
            uploadData.appendData(contentDispositionData!)


            // append content type
            //uploadData.appendData("Content-Type: image/png\r\n\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!) // mark this. 
            let contentTypeString = "Content-Type: \(postData.mimeType.getString())\r\n\r\n"
            let contentTypeData = contentTypeString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
            uploadData.appendData(contentTypeData!)
            uploadData.appendData(postData.data)

        }else{
            uploadData.appendData("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"\(key)\"\r\n\r\n\(value)".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
        }
    }
    uploadData.appendData("\r\n--\(boundaryConstant)--\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)



    // return URLRequestConvertible and NSData
    return (Alamofire.ParameterEncoding.URL.encode(mutableURLRequest, parameters: nil).0, uploadData)
}

USE:

let docDir:AnyObject = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)[0]
let imagePath = docDir + "/myPic.jpg"

var imageData = NSData(contentsOfFile: imagePath, options: NSDataReadingOptions.DataReadingMappedIfSafe, error: nil)
var parameters = [
            "pic"           :NetData(nsData: imageData!, filename: "customName.jpg"),
            "otherParm"     :"Value"
        ]


    let urlRequest = self.urlRequestWithComponents("http://www.example.com/upload.php", parameters: parameters)

The NetData from https://github.com/nghialv/Net/blob/master/Net/NetData.swift

upload.php Code:

<?php
// In PHP versions earlier than 4.1.0, $HTTP_POST_FILES should be used instead
// of $_FILES.

$uploaddir = 'uploads/';
// PS: custom filed name : pic
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['pic']['name']);

if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['pic']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
   $array = array ("code" => "1", "message" => "successfully");  
} else {
   $array = array ("code" => "0", "message" => "Possible file upload attack!".$_FILES['pic']['name']); 
}

echo json_encode ( $array );  

?>

Answer 7

Shorter version based on @antiblank and @VincentYan answers.

Class

class Photo {
    class func upload(image: UIImage, filename: String) -> Request {
        let route = Router.CreatePhoto()
        var request = route.URLRequest.mutableCopy() as NSMutableURLRequest
        let boundary = "NET-POST-boundary-\(arc4random())-\(arc4random())"
        request.setValue("multipart/form-data;boundary="+boundary,
                         forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")

        let parameters = NSMutableData()
        for s in ["\r\n--\(boundary)\r\n",
                  "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"photos[photo]\";" +
                    " filename=\"\(filename)\"\r\n",
                  "Content-Type: image/png\r\n\r\n"] {
            parameters.appendData(s.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
        }
        parameters.appendData(UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 1))
        parameters.appendData("\r\n--\(boundary)--\r\n"
                               .dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
        return Alamofire.upload(request, parameters)
    }
}

Usage

let rep = (asset as ALAsset).defaultRepresentation()
let ref = rep.fullResolutionImage().takeUnretainedValue()
Photo.upload(UIImage(CGImage: ref)!, filename: rep.filename())
    .progress { (bytesWritten, totalBytesWritten, totalBytesExpectedToWrite) in
        println(totalBytesWritten)
    }
    .responseJSON { (request, response, JSON, error) in
        println(JSON)
    }

Answer 8

While there are other answers that advise how to manually construct multipart requests, you might just want to stick with AFNetworking. Even though it's written in Objective-C, you can still use it in your Swift projects (see Swift and Objective-C in the Same Project). Anyway, the Swift code to submit a multipart request using AFNetworking is as follows:

let data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)

let manager = AFHTTPSessionManager()

manager.POST(uploadURLString, parameters: nil, constructingBodyWithBlock: { formData in
    formData.appendPartWithFileData(data, name: "image", fileName: "test.png", mimeType: "image/png")
}, success: { operation, responseObject in
    println(responseObject)
}) { operation, error in
    println(error)
}

Xcode annoying has problems recognizing this id<AFMultipartFormData> parameter, formData, so you don't enjoy the typical editor code completion of the appendPartWithFileData method or its parameters, but when you compile it, and run it, it works fine.

Answer 9

You are getting 415 because of missing the content type in your request. Below is a total soution to image upload on Swift 2 and AlamoFire

import UIKit
import Alamofire

class ViewController: UIViewController {

@IBOutlet var imageView: UIImageView!
@IBOutlet var btnUpload: UIButton!
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
}

func successDataHandler(responseData:String){

    print ("IMAGE UPLOAD SUCCESSFUL    !!!")

}

func failureDataHandler(errorData:String){

    print ("  !!!   IMAGE UPLOAD FAILURE   !!! ")

}

@IBAction func actionUpload(sender: AnyObject) {

    let URL = "http://m8coreapibeta.azurewebsites.net/api/cards/SaveImages"

    let postDataProlife:[String:AnyObject] = ["CardId":(dataCardDetail?.userId)!,"ImageType":1,"ImageData":imageView.image!]

    uplaodImageData(URL, postData: postDataProlife, successHandler: successDataHandler, failureHandler: failureDataHandler)
}

func uplaodImageData(RequestURL: String,postData:[String:AnyObject]?,successHandler: (String) -> (),failureHandler: (String) -> ()) -> () {

    let headerData:[String : String] = ["Content-Type":"application/json"]

    Alamofire.request(.POST,RequestURL, parameters: postData, encoding: .URLEncodedInURL, headers: headerData).responseString{ response in
        switch response.result {
        case .Success:
            print(response.response?.statusCode)
            successHandler(response.result.value!)
        case .Failure(let error):
            failureHandler("\(error)")
        }
    }
}
}

Answer 10

Below are swift and Php Code

Swift code -> Apple Swift version 3.0.1 (swiftlang-800.0.58.6 clang-800.0.42.1) Target: x86_64-apple-macosx10.9

   class  func upload(jsonObject: AnyObject , files : Array<Any>? = nil  , completionHandler :  CompletionBlock? = nil ,failureHandler : FailureBlock? = nil )
{

    Alamofire.upload(multipartFormData:
        { (multipartFormData) in

            if let  filesO = files
            {
                for i in (filesO.enumerated())
                {
                    let image = UIImage(named: "\(i.element)")

                    let data = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image!, 1)!

                    multipartFormData.append(data, withName: "imgFiles[]" , fileName: "\( NSUUID().uuidString).jpeg" , mimeType: "image/jpeg")
                  // imgFiles[] give array in Php Side
                  // imgFiles   will give string in PHP String


                }

            }


            for  (key, value)  in jsonObject as! [String : String]
            {

                 multipartFormData.append(value.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)!, withName: key)

            }}          
    },
                     to:baseURL)

PHP Code to Get Parameters and File

Here Parameters are Handle in $_Request

And Files are handle in $_File

Format in $_File data(Array , Dictionary or String ) will depend on Request in swift side , Here See this line in code

multipartFormData.append(data, withName: "imgFiles[]" , fileName: "( NSUUID().uuidString).jpeg" , mimeType: "image/jpeg")

in Php side withName: "imgFiles[]" gives array of name, format , Type

Eg

"name":["06748B86-478E-421B-8470-6262755AC149.jpeg","E70269E9-FB54-4BFD-B807-7E418C81540D.jpeg"], "type":["image/jpeg","image/jpeg"], "tmp_name":["/tmp/phpz3UAPq","/tmp/phpCAPExG"], "error":[0,0], "size":[2779495,2067259]}

PHP Code

 if (isset($_FILES['imgFiles']) and strlen($orderId) > 0) {

        foreach ($_FILES['imgFiles']['tmp_name'] as $key => $tmp_name) {

            $file_name = $key . $_FILES['imgFiles']['name'][$key];
            $file_size = $_FILES['imgFiles']['size'][$key];
            $file_tmp = $_FILES['imgFiles']['tmp_name'][$key];
            $file_type = $_FILES['imgFiles']['type'][$key];
 if (is_dir("$desired_dir/" . $file_name) == false) {
                //move_uploaded_file($file_tmp, "user_data/" . $file_name);
                move_uploaded_file($file_tmp, $desired_dir . "/" .
           $file_name);
            } else {         //rename the file if another one exist
                $new_dir = $desired_dir . "/" . $file_name . time();
                rename($file_tmp, $new_dir);
            }

Answer 11

I took antiblank's answer and wrapped this all up in 1 function with completion handler. Thought it might be useful for someone. It's a bit 'rougher' then antiblank's answer as I'm simply taking a string response from the PHP file (not JSON).

Here's how you call it:

let imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(myImageView.image)

uploadImage("http://www.example.com/image_upload.php", imageData: imageData, subdir: "images", filename: "imageID.png")
    { (req, res, str, err) -> Void in
        // do whatever you want to to for error handling and handeling success
    }

Here's the function itself:

func uploadImage(urlToPHPFile: String, imageData: NSData, subdir: String, filename: String, completionHandler:(request:NSURLRequest, response:NSURLResponse?, responseString:String?, error: NSError?) -> ()) {

    func urlRequestWithComponents(urlString:String, parameters:Dictionary<String, String>, imageData:NSData) -> (URLRequestConvertible, NSData) {
        // create url request to send
        var mutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: urlString)!)
        mutableURLRequest.HTTPMethod = Method.POST.rawValue
        let boundaryConstant = "myRandomBoundary12345";
        let contentType = "multipart/form-data;boundary="+boundaryConstant
        mutableURLRequest.setValue(contentType, forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")

        // create upload data to send
        let uploadData = NSMutableData()

        // add image
        uploadData.appendData("\r\n--\(boundaryConstant)\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
        uploadData.appendData("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"file.png\"\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
        uploadData.appendData("Content-Type: image/png\r\n\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
        uploadData.appendData(imageData)

        // add parameters
        for (key, value) in parameters {
            uploadData.appendData("\r\n--\(boundaryConstant)\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
            uploadData.appendData("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"\(key)\"\r\n\r\n\(value)".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)
        }
        uploadData.appendData("\r\n--\(boundaryConstant)--\r\n".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)

        // return URLRequestConvertible and NSData
        return (ParameterEncoding.URL.encode(mutableURLRequest, parameters: nil).0, uploadData)
    }

    let parameters = [
        "subdir" : subdir,
        "filename": filename
    ]
    let urlRequest = urlRequestWithComponents(urlToPHPFile, parameters, imageData)

    AlamoFire.upload(urlRequest.0, urlRequest.1)
        .responseString(completionHandler: { [weak self] (req, res, str, err) -> Void in
            if let strongSelf = self {
                completionHandler(request: req, response: res, responseString: str, error: err)

            }
        }
    )
}

And here is the php file.

$subdir = $_POST['subdir'];
$filename = $_POST["filename"];

$targetPath = $subdir.'/'.$filename;

$moved = move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], $targetPath );
if ($moved) {
    echo "OK";
}
else {
    echo "Error: file not uploaded";
}