FormData append not working

Question

I wrote this to upload an image to my local Apache webserver using input element in HTML. The file is logged as not empty, but why is the form_data completely empty?

$('#upload-image').change(function(e){
    var file = e.target.files[0];
    var imageType = /image.*/;
    if (!file.type.match(imageType))
        return;
    console.log(file);
    var form_data = new FormData();
    form_data.append('file', file);
    console.log(form_data);
    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://localhost/upload.php',
        cache: false,
        contentType: false,
        processData: false,
        data: form_data,
        type: 'POST',
        success: function(response){
            console.log(response);
        },
        error: function(error){
            console.log(error);
        }
    });

});

This is my upload.php on local webserver

<?php
    header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
    if ( 0 < $_FILES['file']['error'] ) {
        echo 'Error: ' . $_FILES['file']['error'] . '<br>';
    }
    else {
        move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], 'uploads/' . $_FILES['file']['name']);
        $target_path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/uploads/" . $_FILES['file']['name'];
        echo $target_path;
    }
?>

The console.log(response) logs all the code lines of PHP file, instead of the returned result of echo

Solution

When logging a formData object with just console.log(formData) it always returns empty, as you can't log formData.

If you just have to log it before sending it, you can use entries() to get the entries in the formData object

$('#upload-image').change(function(e) {
    var file = e.target.files[0];
    var imageType = /image.*/;

    if (!file.type.match(imageType)) return;

    var form_data = new FormData();
    form_data.append('file', file);

    for (var key of form_data.entries()) {
        console.log(key[0] + ', ' + key[1]);
    }

    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://localhost/upload.php',
        cache: false,
        contentType: false,
        processData: false,
        data: form_data,
        type: 'POST',
        success: function(response) {
            console.log(response);
        },
        error: function(error) {
            console.log(error);
        }
    });

});

Comments

[necroface]

When will it store on webserver? I can't find the location of uploads

[necroface]

I think it is /var/www/html but I can't see uploads there

[Shamseer Ahammed]

exactly what i wanted..Thanks

[Shark Lasers]

Brilliant! Trying to implement HTMLFormElement instead of just regular forms, I had been trying console.log(formData) and editing my form and trying again (and repeat), trying to return something until I saw this. Thanks @adeneo