File upload in custom component

[biometrx]

I have been stuck on a component i'm building for quite sometime now. On clicking on the new button a page is displayed in view whose function is to collect info such as name, publish or unpublish, client and so on and so forth. The problem is, i need a field for uploading images.

My question is, i have a save function, function store(), in the model which uses the table to save items from the form into the database table by doing the table bind, check_in, save e.t.c.

So, i have created the form fields for all items i need in the tmpl folder of my view but what i really need is for all the items in the form field to be saved to the table however, i need only the url path to the image and image name to be saved to the database with the image itself saved to the file folder system of joomla. I presume i'll do that with the help of JFolders.

I'v searched google but havent quite found what i'm looking for. Could someone with experience with this shed some light on how i could do this?

[Per Yngve Berg]

This is from the Annonces extension:

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function enregistrerPhoto( $file, $photoId, $pMaxUploadKoSize, $comp )
	{
		global $mainframe;
		$result = true;
		if ( !empty($file['name']) )  
		{
			jimport('joomla.filesystem.file');
			
			//check the image
			$check = $this->check($file, (int) $pMaxUploadKoSize);
			
			if ($check == false) {
				return false;
			}
			
			//sanitize the image filename
			$filename = $photoId.'.jpg';
			$filepath = $this->photoPathTemp . DS . $filename;

			if ( JFile::upload($file['tmp_name'], $filepath)) 
			{
				// On redimensionne la photo
				$result = $this->dimensionnerPhotos( $filename ); 
			}
			/**else {
				JError::raiseError( 500, JText::_( 'UPLOAD FAILED' ) );
				return false;
			}*/
		}
		return $result;
	}

[biometrx]

Hello again, thanks for your update. The question is i have been seeing this code but dont even know how to implement it. I already have a store function that saves data from the text input boxes using jtable. Now i've added a an input file upload input box. How do i use that function with the rest of the other text data saved to the db.

Thank you

[Per Yngve Berg]

Get the extension and study the source files.

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... -ads/11937

[biometrx]

Thank you