Codeigniter upload files at root directory outside of the installation folder

Question

This type of question has been asked here before, but no solution is working in this case. I have a website admin panel developed in CI and my directory looks like this.

uploads
    /stores
    /products
admin
    /application
    /system
    /assets

Now, I have to upload files in the subfolders of uploads that are residing in the root via a controller.

I have looked around other solutions and I have tried followings:

$upload_path = './uploads/stores/';

Above code is working when I keep uploads folder inside the admin folder. But I need to keep the uploads folder outside the admin.

I looked at the path CI uses and based on this, here is another method I tried

$upload_path = '../../uploads/stores/';

and also,

$upload_path = '/home/domain/public_html/uploads/stores/';

But this gives me following error.

The path to the image is not correct.

I'm completely lost here. Any suggestion is appreciated.

Answer 1

You can assign following path when you upload your images.

    $uploadpath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/your_folderame';

The document root directly under which the current script is executing, as define in the server configuration file.

Answer 2

Use APPPATH and FCPATH to make the correct structure:

1. FCPATH : path to folder containing you project

2. APPPATH : path to application folder

   echo FCPATH .'uploads'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'stores';

Answer 3

if($this->input->post('img_status') == 3){//here 3 is indicating that new image is selected
    if(!empty($_FILES['image']['name'])){
        $name_array = '';
        $config['upload_path'] = './uploads/';
        $config['allowed_types'] = 'gif|jpg|jpeg|png|bmp'; 
        $config['max_size'] = '1000'; 
        $config['max_width'] = '1280'; 
        $config['max_height'] = '1280'; 
        $this->load->library('upload'); 
        $this->upload->initialize($config);
        if(!$this->upload->do_upload('image'))
            $this->upload->display_errors(); 
        else { 
            $fInfo = $this->upload->data(); //uploading
            $this->gallery_path = realpath(APPPATH . '../uploads');//fetching path
            $config1 = array(
                  'source_image' => $fInfo['full_path'], //get original image
                  'new_image' => $this->gallery_path.'/thumb', //save as new image //need to create thumbs first
                  'maintain_ratio' => true,
                  'width' => 250,
                  'height' => 250

                );
            $this->load->library('image_lib', $config1); //load library
            $this->image_lib->resize(); //generating thumb
            $imagename=$fInfo['file_name'];// we will get image name here
            $dataInsert['image'] = $imagename;
        }   
    }
}
else if($this->input->post('img_status') == 2){
    $dataInsert['image'] = NULL;
}

Answer 4

Directory handling is very easy for each directoy you want to move up ../ so

Try this, just keep adding ../ until you get where you want to go. Code: $dir = "../../gallery/safe/";