I'll answer my own question for the first time. I found an example straight from the source. Please forgive the poor indentation. I wasn't sure how to indent properly when copying and pasting. The code comes straight from Express multipart/form-data example on GitHub.
// Expose modules in ./support for demo purposes
require.paths.unshift(__dirname + '/../../support');
/**
* Module dependencies.
*/
var express = require('../../lib/express')
, form = require('connect-form');
var app = express.createServer(
// connect-form (http://github.com/visionmedia/connect-form)
// middleware uses the formidable middleware to parse urlencoded
// and multipart form data
form({ keepExtensions: true })
);
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.send('<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">'
+ '<p>Image: <input type="file" name="image" /></p>'
+ '<p><input type="submit" value="Upload" /></p>'
+ '</form>');
});
app.post('/', function(req, res, next){
// connect-form adds the req.form object
// we can (optionally) define onComplete, passing
// the exception (if any) fields parsed, and files parsed
req.form.complete(function(err, fields, files){
if (err) {
next(err);
} else {
console.log('\nuploaded %s to %s'
, files.image.filename
, files.image.path);
res.redirect('back');
}
});
// We can add listeners for several form
// events such as "progress"
req.form.on('progress', function(bytesReceived, bytesExpected){
var percent = (bytesReceived / bytesExpected * 100) | 0;
process.stdout.write('Uploading: %' + percent + '\r');
});
});
app.listen(3000);
console.log('Express app started on port 3000');
then your route automatically has access to the uploaded file(s) in req.files:
app.post('/todo/create', function (req, res) {
// TODO: move and rename the file using req.files.path & .name)
res.send(console.dir(req.files)); // DEBUG: display available fields
});
If you name the input control "todo" like this (in Jade):
form(action="/todo/create", method="POST", enctype="multipart/form-data")
input(type='file', name='todo')
button(type='submit') New
Then the uploaded file is ready by the time you get the path and original filename in 'files.todo':
See, the best thing you can do is to just upload the image to the disk and save the URL in MongoDB. Rest when you retrieve the image again. Just specify the URL, and you will get an image. The code for uploading is as follows.
app.post('/upload', function(req, res) {
// Get the temporary location of the file
var tmp_path = req.files.thumbnail.path;
// Set where the file should actually exists - in this case it is in the "images" directory.
target_path = '/tmp/' + req.files.thumbnail.name;
// Move the file from the temporary location to the intended location
fs.rename(tmp_path, target_path, function(err) {
if (err)
throw err;
// Delete the temporary file, so that the explicitly set temporary upload dir does not get filled with unwanted files.
fs.unlink(tmp_path, function() {
if (err)
throw err;
//
});
});
});
Now save the target path in your MongoDB database.
Again, while retrieving the image, just extract the URL from the MongoDB database, and use it on this method.
I know that the original question related to specific versions, but it also referred to the "latest" - @JohnAllen 's post is no longer relevant due to Expressjs bodyParser and connect-form
This demonstrates the easy to use in-built bodyParser():
Here's a way to upload your images using the formidable package, which is recommended over bodyParser in later versions of Express. This also includes the ability to resize your images on the fly:
If you want save images in localstorage and want save path in database you can try following approach
you have to install first the fs-extra which will create folder. I am creating separate folders by id's if you want to remove it you can remove it. and
to save path of image where it is uploaded add this code in your api or controller you are using to save image and and add it in database with other data
let Id = req.body.id;
let path = `tmp/daily_gasoline_report/${Id}`;
create separate folder for multer like multerHelper.js
const multer = require('multer');
let fs = require('fs-extra');
let storage = multer.diskStorage({
destination: function (req, file, cb) {
let Id = req.body.id;
let path = `tmp/daily_gasoline_report/${Id}`;
fs.mkdirsSync(path);
cb(null, path);
},
filename: function (req, file, cb) {
// console.log(file);
let extArray = file.mimetype.split("/");
let extension = extArray[extArray.length - 1];
cb(null, file.fieldname + '-' + Date.now() + "." + extension);
}
})
let upload = multer({ storage: storage });
let createUserImage = upload.array('images', 100);
let multerHelper = {
createUserImage,
}
module.exports = multerHelper;
In your routes import multerhelper file
const multerHelper = require("../helpers/multer_helper");
router.post(multerHelper. createUserImage , function(req, res, next) {
//Here accessing the body datas.
})