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POTrying to upload a file through jQuery .post() - file input not showing up on back end (using codeigniter)
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copied!<p>First of all I'd like to ask that you don't suggest I turn to a jQuery plugin to solve my issue. I'm just not willing to make my app work with a plugin (and it prevents me from learning!)</p> <p>I have a form with a bunch of fields that I'm passing to my backend via the use of jQuery's <code>$.post()</code> This is what I have as my jQuery function:</p> <pre><code> $.post( "/item/edit", $("#form").serialize(), function(responseJSON) { console.log(responseJSON); }, "html" ); </code></pre> <p>This is how I opened my form: </p> <pre><code><form action="http://localhost/item/edit" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" class="form-horizontal" enctype="multipart/form-data"> </code></pre> <p>This was auto generated by codeigniter's <code>form_open()</code> method (hence why action="" has a value. Though this shouldn't matter because I don't have a submit button at the end of the form)</p> <p>Within my <code>#form</code> I have this as my file input: <code><input type="file" name="pImage" /></code></p> <p>When the appropriate button is hit and the <code>$.post()</code> method is called, I have my backend just print the variables like so: <code>print_r($_POST)</code> and within the printed variables the 'pImage' element is missing. I thought that maybe files wouldn't come up as an element in the array so I went ahead and just tried to upload the file using this codeigniter function: <code>$this->upload->do_upload('pImage');</code> and I get an error: "You did not select a file to upload."</p> <p>Any idea as to how I can overcome this problem?</p>

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