$config[‘upload_path’] = ‘uploads/images/’;
$config[‘allowed_types’] = ‘flv’;
$config[‘max_size’] = ‘99920439’;
$config[‘max_width’] = ‘1024’;
$config[‘max_height’] = ‘768’;

$this->load->library(‘upload’, $config);

$this->upload->initialize($config);

$this->upload->do_upload(‘videofile’);

Result: print_r($this->upload->data());

Array
(
  [file_name] => habibi.flv
  [file_type] => application/octet-stream
  [file_path] => x:/home/yaba.by/www/uploads/images/
  [full_path] => x:/home/yaba.by/www/uploads/images/habibi.flv
  [raw_name] => habibi
  [orig_name] =>
  [file_ext] => .flv
  [file_size] => 7382.4
  [is_image] =>
  [image_width] =>
  [image_height] =>
  [image_type] =>
  [image_size_str] =>
)

wtf ):

i founded the same “problem”

go to application/config/mimes and put the extension (flv) and the type in that file. will work, believe me

the proper mime type for .flv is “video/x-flv”

$mimes = array(

‘flv’  =>  ‘application/octet-stream’

);

MASS MASS - 30 October 2007 02:18 PM

$mimes = array(

‘flv’  =>  ‘application/octet-stream’

);

If that isn’t uploaded with IE i’m losing my faith in browsers.

Thx’s!

I’ve got the same problem, however the fixes that seem to work for everyone else do not seem to be working for me.

I have tried adding all three of the following to the mimes array in mimes.php

and

and it still doesn’t work [The filetype you are attempting to upload is not allowed]

does anyone know what I could be missing? Is there another fix to this?

CodeIgniter version 1.5.3

Well it looks like I’m going to have to do this the standard php way.
It’s a shame that the code igniter upload library is so unusable. I’ve never encountered a problem with a ci library that has forced me to completely bypass it like this.

Well I don’t think this is a problem with CI since I have a site where the standard code for upload works fine for uploading the flv files. Once you add the mime type the file should be easily uploaded without anything else required. Please provide info about your setup or maybe the code for uploading. Someone might get some clue from it.

Good Day !!!

Thanks for replying.

I’m pretty sure that I’ve got everything right as far as my code goes.

I can upload zip files ok. It’s just .flv

[php5 | apache 2.2.3 | opensuse 10.2 | codeigniter 1.5.3]

kaff - 10 December 2007 05:27 AM

Well it looks like I’m going to have to do this the standard php way.
It’s a shame that the code igniter upload library is so unusable. I’ve never encountered a problem with a ci library that has forced me to completely bypass it like this.

No dear no,

It works fine, I took hints form your thread, It works fine.

Please check the directory permissions,

THanks

I thought we already solved this in another thread.

Things to check:
*Make sure you actually uploaded the mimes.php file.
*Make sure the directory has write permissions
*Make sure you are not uploading a file larger than your php.ini allows
*Make sure you are using the correct form type.
*Make sure you uploaded your most current uploading script (be it a controller, library etc.)
*Make sure you actually allowed .flv to be uploaded through filters
*Make sure your form name for the file upload is the same for your validation.

There are so many places an error can happen is quite sad, but some research can bring amazing results. I bet it’s something silly you did wrong.

Hey, today i figured out, that its a problem also with browsers, really.
For example: if in mimes.php i set:

Firefox is uploading without problem, but Safari doesn’t. And if i set:

then Safari uploads *.flv files fine, but Firefox doesn’t. So right now i’m trying in Upload.php class to recognize browser and set different mimes.php, like mimes_safari.php and mimes.php for others.

Hope it will work. Will inform after success.

UPDATE:

SOLVED! As i wrote above, it’s a problem with Safari (allowed type FLV). So in Upload.php i changed for example:

Of course, we can do it easier in one mimes.php file with two arrays, like

It appears that Safari doesn’t send/report(?) a mime type for some files. I had the same problem adding a mime type for OpenType fonts “.otf”. When I tested what the reported content-type was, Safari displayed nothing, Firefox showed application/octet-stream.

So, the way I fixed it was by adding a blank element to the array. Seems to work!

Perhaps CI needs to patch the Upload class to look out for this sort of behavior automatically.

Update: Googling this topic uncovered others with similar issues. Safari does not send a content-type for certain files, FLVs being a prominent one.

Another way to solve this is to extend the upload class with a small modification to the is_allowed_filetype() function. The only code I added was between the //Safari Hack comments…

This might help:

I had problems uploading flv files as well, i followed this thread, tried out a couple of stuff. Ended up editing my mimes.php file in the config folder with:

Just this didn’t work, when calling the upload class you need to specify the allowed file extensions, ofcourse I had flv in there, but that didn’t succeed.

When I changed that allowed file types to flv|*other file types, my flv upload started working, so it looks like you need to specify flv first.

(maybe i am doing it wrong, but this worked for me )