Encode an image and pass it to a database

[Slaney_Tales]

[Slaney_Tales]

if I hard code an image into the URL domain.com/loadim.php?image=pic.jpg it works fine.

[Slaney_Tales]

Is it necessary to compile an APP before testing ? I get inconsistent results from the same code.

[TIMAI2]

@Slaney_Tales

What am I doing wrong !

This setup works for me (tested with companion app on Android 13), sending a picked image to the mySql db from Appinventor

DB Table Structure

PHP

<?php
// sube3.php 
// 1.- IDENTIFICACION nombre de la base, del usuario, clave y servidor
$db_host="localhost";
$db_name="fake"; // fake
$db_login="fake"; // fake
$db_pswd="fake"; // fake

// 2.- CONEXION A LA BASE DE DATOS
$link = new mysqli($db_host, $db_login, $db_pswd, $db_name);

// 3.- OBTENER ARCHIVO - GET FILE
  $file = file_get_contents('php://input');
   if (file_put_contents($_GET['archivo'],$file == TRUE))  {
   
		$filename = $_GET['archivo'];
		$extension = pathinfo($filename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
		// $extension = mime_content_type($filename);
		
		// Archivo a MySQLi. BLOB. - File to MysQLi BLOB.
		$imageBlob = mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $file);
		$resultado = mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO testTable (imageBlob, extn, filename) VALUES ('$imageBlob', '$extension', '$filename')");
		mysqli_close($link);	
		echo $filename." uploaded.";
   } else {
	echo "Error";  
   }
?>

BLOCKS

SCREEN

MYSQL DB TABLE

[Slaney_Tales]

Are you working on a localhost. I make these changes and the same result. The app inventor starts to lock up. Can I set up the APP inventor on local host ?

[TIMAI2]

@Slaney_Tales

Are you working on a localhost

No, this is on a remote online server

@Slaney_Tales

Can I set up the APP inventor on local host ?

You want to build your own appinventor from sources ? (this is not the problem)

Check your work again.....

Share your aia project for inspection (you can remove/replace your domain name)

[Slaney_Tales]

I'm beginning to think my host Arvixe.com don't want me using the file_get_contents procedure as any script I have using it is not working. It's rediculas.

[Slaney_Tales]

Why is the BLOB data not going into the database from App Inventor ??
It does work if I hard code an image into the URL so its not the PHP, Table or Host.
Here's the BLOCKS

[Juan_Antonio]

@Slaney_Tales

I hard code an image into the URL

which means "I hard code an image into the URL", can you give an example?

[Slaney_Tales]

thamestales.co.uk/longbupl.php?imagen=XXXXX.php

Something like this works fine. But send it from APP inventor and it does not. Does the domain need to be https

[Slaney_Tales]

sorry XXXX.jpg

[Taifun]

The web component is not able to send multipart/formdata, see also

Posting an Image to Imgur - works with Postman, error with App Inventor 2

theoretically it would be possible using the web component… however the web component does not support multipart/formdata, i.e. a mixture of binary data and text, so the web component unfortunately is not able to do it you could try to use the Terminal / Shell Extension by @Juan_Antonio , but I’m not sure, if this will be possible there… you might want to try it and let us know, what you find out… EDIT this should be doable using the web component... I'm not sure, if you can use dicti…

Taifun

[Juan_Antonio]

@Slaney_Tales

Something like this works fine

Try

PostFile
path

[Slaney_Tales]

Right. So you're saying this Request Headers does not work. What should it be ?

[TIMAI2]

It is not needed.

[Slaney_Tales]

I have tried that along with a lot of other versions. There is no BLOB data going to the PHP script.

[Slaney_Tales]

[TIMAI2]

Show your php file again

[Slaney_Tales]

$link = new mysqli($db_host, $db_login, $db_pswd, $db_name);

//  $data = file_get_contents(basename($_GET["imagen"]));
  
 $data = file_get_contents('php://input');

     
      if (!(file_put_contents($_GET['imagen'],$data) === FALSE))  {

		$nombre = $_GET['imagen'];
		$extension = pathinfo($nombre, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
		
		$blob = mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $data);
		
		$resultado = mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO drawings (image, extension, name) VALUES ('$blob', '$extension', '$nombre')");
		mysqli_close($link);
		
   } else {
	echo "Error no";  
   }

It can't be this if I can insert the BLOB data with the hard code.

[Slaney_Tales]

Is is possible to do this ? Are phones set to prevent sharing images outside the Industry giants ?