[wp-hackers] Uploading image attachments from the front-end

[Leo germani]

I think you should use media_handle_upload()

Leo,,

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Matthew Gerring <mgerring at emrl.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm working on a collaborative editing system for WP and I'm trying to
> figure out how to access WP's media features from the frontend.
> wp_insert_attachment works just fine, but if I try to generate a thumbnail
> or the image metadata, WP shuts down and stops loading the page. I think
> this is because these functions are only supposed to run from the admin area
> but I'm not sure. This is what my code looks like:
>
> function sw_photo_upload() {
> if ($_FILES != null) {
> $upath = wp_upload_dir();
> $target_path = $upath['path'].'/';
> $target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);
> $target_uri = $upath['url'].'/'.basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);
> if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
>    echo "The file ".  basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name'])." has been
> uploaded";
>    echo $target_path;
>    $attach = array();
>    $attach['guid'] = $target_uri;
>    $attach['post_title'] = basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);
>    $attach_id = wp_insert_attachment($attach, $target_uri,
> $_POST['parent']);
>    wp_create_thumbnail($attach_id, '90');
>    //wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $target_path );
> } else {
>    echo "There was an error uploading ".$_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']."
> to ".$target_path.". PHP returned the following error:
> ".$_FILES['uploadedfile']['error'];
> }
> }
> }
>
> There's lots of debugging stuff in there and I'm sure it's very sloppy, but
> I don't understand why wp_create_thumbnail causes everything to crash. It
> executes just fine if I comment that line out, but I want to use WP's built
> in thumbnail generation. Is there a good way to do this?
>
> (And yes, I know this needs security improvements, that's my next step once
> it's working).
>
> -Matthew
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