How to upload image using rest web services in symfony - web-services

Question

I am trying upload image using rest web service in my symfony application. I have tried the following code but it is throwing the error undefined index photo. I want to know what is the right way to do it.
I have followed how to send / get files via web-services in php but it didn't worked.
Here is the my html file with which am hitting the application url:
<form action="http://localhost/superbApp/web/app_dev.php/upload" enctype='multipart/form-data' method="POST">
<input type="file" name="photo" ></br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload">
</form>
And my controller method is like:
public function uploadAction(){
$request = $this->getRequest(); /*** get the request method ****/
$RequestMethod = $request->getMethod();
$uploads_dir = '/uploads';
foreach ($_FILES["photo"]["error"] as $key => $error) {
if ($error == UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
$tmp_name = $_FILES["photo"]["tmp_name"][$key];
$name = $_FILES["photo"]["name"][$key];
move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, $uploads_dir."/".$name);
}
}
}

Answer 1

If you are using Symfony, you should use Symfony forms to do this. In your example, you put an URL which is pointing to app_dev.php, but that url doesn't work in production mode. In the Symfony cookbook there is an article explaining how upload files, which you should read:
http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/doctrine/file_uploads.html
When you have done this, you can upload images via Rest WebService using the route specified for your action, specifying the Content-Type to multipart/form-data, and the name of the field which you add the image would be something like this package_yourbundle_yourformtype[file].