File Upload using AngularJS

Question

Here is my HTML form:

Answer 1

This is the modern browser way, without 3rd party libraries. Works on all the latest browsers.

 app.directive('myDirective', function (httpPostFactory) {
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        scope: true,
        link: function (scope, element, attr) {

            element.bind('change', function () {
                var formData = new FormData();
                formData.append('file', element[0].files[0]);
                httpPostFactory('upload_image.php', formData, function (callback) {
                   // recieve image name to use in a ng-src 
                    console.log(callback);
                });
            });

        }
    };
});

app.factory('httpPostFactory', function ($http) {
    return function (file, data, callback) {
        $http({
            url: file,
            method: "POST",
            data: data,
            headers: {'Content-Type': undefined}
        }).success(function (response) {
            callback(response);
        });
    };
});

HTML:

PHP:

if (isset($_FILES['file']) && $_FILES['file']['error'] == 0) {

// uploads image in the folder images
    $temp = explode(".", $_FILES["file"]["name"]);
    $newfilename = substr(md5(time()), 0, 10) . '.' . end($temp);
    move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], 'images/' . $newfilename);

// give callback to your angular code with the image src name
    echo json_encode($newfilename);
}

js fiddle (only front-end) https://jsfiddle.net/vince123/8d18tsey/31/