How to upload file in cakephp without refersh page

Here we are going discuss about how to upload image or file without refresh page in cakephp and jquery.

Create controller in cakephp

ProfilesController.php

class ProfilesController extends AppController {
var $name = 'Profiles';
public $uses = array('Profile');
function changeprofilephoto() {
$profile_id =14; //
$path = "../../app/webroot/profilepic/";//set path
$valid_formats = array(".jpg", ".png", ".gif", ".bmp", ".jpeg");//
if($this->data)
{
$this->Profile->set( $this->data );
$name = $this->data["Profile"]['profile_pic']['name'];
$size = $this->data["Profile"]['profile_pic']['size'];
if(strlen($name))
{
$fileExt = substr(strrchr($name, '.'), 0);
if(in_array($fileExt,$valid_formats))
{
if($size<(1024*1024))
{
$actual_image_name = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s')).$fileExt;
$tmp = $this->data["Profile"]['profile_pic']['tmp_name'];
if(move_uploaded_file($tmp, $path.$actual_image_name))
{
$this->Profile->set($this->data);
$this->Profile->id=$profile_id;
$this->Profile->saveField('uploadfoldername',$actual_image_name);
echo "<img src='/profilepic/".$actual_image_name."' class='preview'>";
$this->Session->write('suc','1');
$this->redirect($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
}
else
echo "failed";
}
else
echo "Image file size max 1 MB";
}
else
echo "Invalid file format..";
} else
echo "Please select image..!";
exit;
}
}
}



Create view file

Views/Profiles/changeprofilephoto.ctp

 <?php
echo $this->Html->script('jquery.min.js');
echo $this->Html->script('jquery.form.js');
?>
 
<script type="text/javascript" >
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#profile_pic').live('change', function(){
$("#preview").html('');
$("#preview").html('<img src="../img/loader.gif" alt="Uploading...."/>');//download loding image
$("#Profile").ajaxForm({
target: '#preview'
}).submit();
});
});
</script>
<style>
.preview
{
width:200px;
border:solid 1px #dedede;
padding:10px;
}
#preview
{
color:#cc0000;
font-size:12px
}
</style>
<div class="layout-popup f-left">
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('Profile',array('id'=>'Profile', 'controller'=>'Profiles','action'=>'changeprofilephoto', 'type'=>'file'));
?>
 
 
<!-- start id-form -->
<table class="frm-tbl" id="id-form" >
<tr>
<td colspan="2" class="align-t-r" >
<div class="f-left popup-title">Change profile image</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Upload your image</td>
<td align="left" >
<!-- <input type="file" name="[Profile][photoimg]" id="profile_pic" /> -->
<?php echo $form->file('profile_pic', array('id'=>'profile_pic', "label" => false, "div"=>false, 'class'=>'styled-input-big'))?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<div id='preview'>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
echo $this->Form->end();
?>
</div>

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