image upload, resize THEN submit form

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

Ok so I have a form that requires the user to upload an image, and then do something with that image (using some ajax scripts), then fill out the rest of the form and submit. I have the upload script pretty much working, my problem is that I need to store the uploaded images temporarily just in case the user decides not to submit the form

Here's the process I would need:
1) Form loads
2) User fills out form
3) User uploads image (php + ajax)
a) image is resized to a large and thumbnail image using imagecopyresampled()
b) fullsize and thumbnail images should be stored in a temporary location ??
4) Image is dynamically displayed in the form after upload and resize (using some jQuery/ajax magic)
5) User performs some action to the uploaded image (using jQuery/ajax)

At this point, the user can submit the completed form, at which time a php script will will move the temporary (resized) fullsize and thumbnail images from the temp location to a permanent location on the server, and if the file saving succeeds, then it will write the form data to a MySQL server.

BUT if the user doesn't submit the form, I need the temporary files to be deleted.

Normally this would be handled by the temporary files being stored by the $_FILES array, but since I have to resize them after upload, the $_FILES["upload"]["tmp_name"] is automatically deleted after I resize it.

Please suggest an alternative solution. As I said, the upload script is done. It can upload and resize the images, but I need a way to store the images temporarily until the form is submitted.

Your Answer:

Login to answer

Other forums

Help with parsing this html
Hi,
I've got some html i just need a couple of strings from.. argh, it's freaking me out. I've t

max() problem
I have a while loop to get image names.
Code: $imagequery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ad_i

DOMDocument
Hello All,

I need to take an XML document, modify some of the nodes in it and then perform a

Saving PHP output as a file
I wondered if anyone knows how to save the rendered output of a PHP script as a file?

I have

uploading video files into mysql in php
hi,
I have the video files which i have to upload into mysql db. along with creating thumbnails f

Restricted access to sub-folder in iis6 doesn't work?
Basically I'm trying to add restriction to sub-folder (which contains pdf) in web.config for iis6 as

Login page problems
I developed a website a few months ago and I am now having an issue with logging into it. The place

Form File Upload
I've read through tons of resources and tutorials and as far as I can tell, my code is accurate, but

using a loop help
Hi guys , i need some help. I have this loop :
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($Result)) { ?&

displaying unknown amount of results
I am reading a directory and getting a list of folders in the directory, I want to display the folde