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Thanks for submitting a ticket. I had not considered this use-case before, having not used much JS as a front-end. It is focused, as you rightly say, on being posted from PHP.

I would think that updating the request data before it is marshalled would be a good solution.

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I'll give it a go - thanks for tip on where to start. I'll post my findings.

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I'm not sure how I can set the tmp_name manually with a valid value because although I can easily set an arbitrary value how can I know the random name used for each image temporarily stored, for example these are town examples:

'tmp_name' => 'C:\wamp64\tmp\php6B85.tmp',
'tmp_name' => 'C:\wamp64\tmp\php7318.tmp',

If this is set by PHP how can it be set manually in my Cake app?

Note added: seems I may need access to $_FILES but within my cake app this is empty.

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Hmm, perhaps it's worth looking at https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/cakephp-upload and using a custom Writer class and a custom transformer to generate thumbnails using a library of your choice.

I've not used Angular, so I've no idea how it uploads files.

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So actually this is a lot simpler than I imagined and all the work which is required is on the front-end side.

What I had to do was use a FormData object to set the file data which then resulted in the file attributes are passed before make the call to the Cake backend:

var dataObj = new FormData();

angular.forEach($scope.listing.listing_images, function(value, key) {
     dataObj.append('listing_images[' + key + ']', value); 
});

$http({
     method: 'post',
     url: frontbaseurl + '/api/listings.json',
     data: dataObj,
     headers: {'Content-Type': undefined},
});

This wasn't obvious to me because to date when posting to the back-end I have simply been passing an object with attributes for each field to be saved. The idea of using a formData object is new but seems to be the solution.

Feel free to close this 'issue'. Thanks!

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Glad you figured it out @spacebiscuit, good thought to use a formData object 👍

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