Uploading to nginx using the nginx upload module with php_handler

***Hello, I have been searching a long time how to get the upload_handler from the verybasic example to work with the nginx uploadmodule. So here is my solution: First my nginx.conf file :

`# You may add here your
# server {
#	...
# }
# statements for each of your virtual hosts to this file

##
# You should look at the following URL's in order to grasp a solid understanding
# of Nginx configuration files in order to fully unleash the power of Nginx.
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
# http://wiki.nginx.org/QuickStart
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration
#
# Generally, you will want to move this file somewhere, and start with a clean
# file but keep this around for reference. Or just disable in sites-enabled.
#
# Please see /usr/share/doc/nginx-doc/examples/ for more detailed examples.
##

server {
	client_max_body_size 4G;
	client_body_buffer_size 1024k;
	listen 80;
	listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

	root /usr/share/nginx/html;
	index index.html index.htm index.php;

	# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
	server_name localhost;

	location @frontcontroller {
	rewrite ^ /index.php last;
	}

	
	location = /progress {
	report_uploads uploads;
	}

	location /upload {
                # the location of the php handler
		upload_pass	/jQueryFileUpload/server/php/index.php;
                # the location where the files are uploaded
		upload_store	/var/tmp/fuploads;
		upload_store_access user:rw;
		upload_state_store /var/tmp/fuploads/state ;

		    # Set specified fields in request body 
                    # the field dat will be available throug the supergloble $_POST[]
        	    upload_set_form_field "${upload_field_name}_name" $upload_file_name;
	            upload_set_form_field "${upload_field_name}_content_type" $upload_content_type;
        	    upload_set_form_field "${upload_field_name}_path" $upload_tmp_path;

        	    upload_aggregate_form_field "${upload_field_name}_md5" $upload_file_md5;
	            upload_aggregate_form_field "${upload_field_name}_size" $upload_file_size;

        	    upload_pass_form_field "^submit$|^description$";

	track_uploads uploads 5s;
         }
	location / {
		# First attempt to serve request as file, then
		# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
		# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
		# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
	}

	location /doc/ {
		alias /usr/share/doc/;
		autoindex on;
		allow 127.0.0.1;
		allow ::1;
		deny all;
	}
	# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
	#
	location ~ \.php$ {
		fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
	#	# NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
	#
	#	# With php5-cgi alone:
	#	fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
	#	# With php5-fpm:
		fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
		fastcgi_index index.php;
		include fastcgi_params;
	}
}

Once this is done you have to open up the verybasic.php file and look for the input field , the **name of the input field will be our prefix name in our $_POST[] variable* i call mine simple “files”:

<input id="fileupload" type="file" name="files" data-url="/upload" >

Then the last step is to adapt the Uploadhandler.php. There are 3 function to adapt : first the post function

you can delete everything in it and replace it with this:

public function post($print_response = true) {
    	$prefix = files; //our name of the input field 
    	
        if (isset($_REQUEST['_method']) && $_REQUEST['_method'] === 'DELETE') {
            
        	return $this->delete($print_response);
        }
        $files = array();
        $files = $this->new_handle_file_upload($prefix);
        return $this->new_generate_response(array('files' => $files));
    }
        

As you see in the above we have to new function , add these 2 functions:

protected function new_handle_file_upload($prefix)
	{
		
		$file = new stdClass();
		$file->name = $_POST[$prefix."_name"];
		$file->type = $_POST[$prefix."_content_type"];		
		$file->url = $_POST[$prefix."_path"];
		$file->size = $_POST[$prefix."_size"];
		$file->error = 'success';
		$this->set_additional_file_properties($file);
		$s[]=$file;		
		return $s;
		
		
	}

protected function new_generate_response($content)
	{
		$this->head();
		$json = json_encode($content);
		$this->body($json);
		return content;
		
	}

This is it , hopefully a lot of people will enjoy it. Thank you