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Meek D
3,457 Pointscan we save the user profile picture in parse and then load it in the background
who knows a better idea , because i think using only one database will save for us more time
2 Answers
landonferrier
25,097 PointsMeek, Parse makes this kind of functionality easy. I spent some time doing this in Lion, my app.
I used this code to get the image in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:
//Assuming that you have an array of friends in your project, this will get that user that was tapped on.
PFUser *user = self.friends[indexPath.row];
//Get the profile image file from the user tapped on with the shorthand objectForKey: syntax.
PFFile *profileImageFile = user[@"ProfileImage"];
[profileImageFile getDataInBackgroundWithBlock:^(NSData *imageData, NSError *error) {
if (!error && imageData)
{
//If there was no error with the internet request and some kind of data was returned, use that data to form the profile image with the handy method of UIImage.
//Set the image view to the image with the data returned from Parse.
cell.imageView.image = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];
}
else
{
//Use Ben Jakuben's easy to read error printing technique.
NSLog(@"Error: %@ %@", error, [error localizedDescription]);
}
}];
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 PointsIt's usually a bad idea to save any binary data such as images and PDFs on an actual database, but Parse designed their API to in fact handle cases you want to upload images for use with Parse Core within your app.
If you want a hand-on tutorial demonstrating how you do it, Parse has provided a tutorial on how to do it.
Meek D
3,457 Pointsi am not talking about general pictures , i want to know is there any way to save the profile picture and the username the parse database and load it through any view controller i want