Uploading files with PhoneGap + iPhone

Question

I understand that PhoneGap applications are largely (if not entirely) HTML5 + CSS + JavaScript. Natively, the iPhone doesn\'t provide controls to upload files.

Does Phon

Answer 1

You can do an xmlhttprequest to the file on a local drive.
I'm not 100% sure if it will work on the iPhone, but webkit should support it.

function getImageBinaries(url) { //synchronous binary downloader for firefox2

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("GET", url, false);

req.overrideMimeType('text/plain; charset=x-user-defined');

req.send("");
if (req.status != 200) {
    return "";
}
var t = req.responseText || "" ;
var ff = [];
var mx = t.length;
var scc= String.fromCharCode;
for (var z = 0; z < mx; z++) {
    ff[z] = scc(t.charCodeAt(z) & 255);
}
var b = ff.join("");
return b;
}

Succes, Erik