# Posting an image to a php-server
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/posting-an-image-to-a-php-server/75248
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** image, webapi, php
**Created:** [April 24, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/posting-an-image-to-a-php-server/75248 "2019-04-24T13:44:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@engberg](https://community.thunkable.com/u/engberg)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/posting-an-image-to-a-php-server/75248/1 "2019-04-24T13:44:05Z")
Hi
I’d like to select a picture and send it to my php-server.
I can select fine - but posting it seems to be a problem. There is no web\_api.postfile in Thunkable X.
Can anyone help me on this task?
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/posting-an-image-to-a-php-server/75248/2 "2019-04-24T16:01:53Z")
Hi,
How and where do you select the file?
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### Author:  [@engberg](https://community.thunkable.com/u/engberg)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/posting-an-image-to-a-php-server/75248/3 "2019-04-24T16:46:16Z")
Hi actech - thanks for answering
I just choose through the photo\_library component.
If somewhere else is easier, then I’m game…
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 7:27am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/posting-an-image-to-a-php-server/75248/4 "2019-04-25T07:27:31Z")
Now I understand. If you have experience with JavaScript, then I would suggest the option of working through WebViewer. To do this, open the html file in WebViewer with the form of sending the file to the server with the element
The second option is after selecting a file using to encode it in base64 format, and then you can send files anywhere (in messages or a database) in this text format. As an example, look at the scrFileViewer screen from the project (but this does not work on Android).
[https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c8e64dfe1aad2f778a4c5ad/project/properties/designer/](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c8e64dfe1aad2f778a4c5ad/project/properties/designer/)
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### Author:  [@engberg](https://community.thunkable.com/u/engberg)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/posting-an-image-to-a-php-server/75248/5 "2019-04-25T09:16:59Z")
Thank you for suggesting.
I like the Jscript you made for converting to base64 - but if it doesn’t work on Android, then I cannot use it.
The first suggestion is to open a page, and then select the image through the web-page form? Just like on [https://imgur.com/upload](https://imgur.com/upload) ?
When I go there on my normal browser (on my phone), it works just fine - but when I try through the webwiever, then nothing pops up when I click “browse”.
Thank you for the replys.
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/posting-an-image-to-a-php-server/75248/6 "2019-04-25T11:22:43Z")
Yes, the file upload form can be implemented in several ways:
1. Create an html file with a form, add this file to the project and point it to the link in WebViewer
2. Open a form in WebViewer online to upload the file to the server.
3. Use the Thunkable X example from [https://docs.thunkable.com/media-db](https://docs.thunkable.com/media-db) and first save the image to the Cloudinary repository, and then send the resulting link to the saved file to the repository, for example, in your php script, which this link will save the file on your server
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### Author:  [@engberg](https://community.thunkable.com/u/engberg)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/posting-an-image-to-a-php-server/75248/7 "2019-04-28T19:22:07Z")
I would really like to avoid cloudinary, as a detour before my own server. So option 3 is out.
When I try option 1 - I’ve tried with [PHP Tutorial - File Upload](http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php) and [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://imgur.com/upload) - nothing happens, when I click the “find file” button within webview. It just doesn’t seem to respond - or somehow doesn’t allow the file to be searched for.
Option 2 also seems fine, but I don’t know how - I’ve tried adding this:
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