Hello, all
This extension places a simple file field on the publish page and allows the user to upload images/documents to the field.  It uses the existing upload directories defined and takes their settings, so file type and size restrictions should be valid.  Currently there is not an error system, because of the way EE runs it’s output, but i’ll look into something soon.  Also you should know that the extension requires JS if you want to remove an image.  Without JS it can not be done.

Finally.  The “icons” folder goes in your default “images” folder next to the “uploads” directory.

UPDATE: - I’ve got a 3.x version going on my site, please try that before downgrading to the 2.x branch. Find it here: http://docs.markhuot.com/ee/extensions/file/

I installed File (v.1.0.0) in EE Core, but I see no file field in the form:

CP Home ›  Publish ›  New Entry

Where to look for it?

Thanks.

You’ll have to add it as a field the same way you would add a new text field or date field under Admin > Weblog Administration > Custom Fields > Field Group > Add New Custom Field

Thanks a lot! I understood.

It works now.

But 2 notes:

CP Home ›  Publish ›  New Entry:

Notice: Undefined variable: display in /usr/home/***/system/extensions/ext.file.php on line 296

(PHP5; EE Core)

And a font size problem: 2 screenshots attached, w/ file field, and w/o file field.
(FF/WinXP)

I updated it.  The fix should fix both the notice and the font size.  Upload it up top.

Excellent! Thanks a lot!

There was an issue with one of my regular expressions which has now been updated.  please download again from the first post.

The archive (zip) is broken.

fixed!  it was 0k now it’s 88k, so that should be good.

I’ve updated the ext again to output the full file url when called from the template.  Get it at the top.

There’s a serious(?) bug in the extension. Today I have published an article in a weblog that did NOT use the file extension (latest version):

Problems after publishing, but it was published.

I repeated the bug by Edit/Quick Save:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/home/***/system/extensions/ext.file.php on line 324

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/***/system/extensions/ext.file.php:324) in /usr/home/***/system/core/core.functions.php on line 707

PHP5; the weblog doesn’t use the file field. And I see the font size in the blog in this blog (w/o file field)

I created a test entry. Result:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/home/***/system/extensions/ext.file.php on line 324

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/***/system/extensions/ext.file.php:324) in /usr/home/***/system/core/core.functions.php on line 707

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/***/system/extensions/ext.file.php:324) in /usr/home/***/system/core/core.functions.php on line 293

The entry was published. (This weblog/weblog publish page doesn’t use the file field)

But I don’t see the font size bug now.

Exellent extension Mark, great idea

It does need a little bit more work though.

I get the same warnings when I use more than one File field.

Also, Formatting for the File field is set to ‘Xhtml’ by default but should be ‘None’ (you can work around this by creating a text field first, set formatting to ‘None’ and then change field type to ‘File’)

Cheers

Thanks for the replies guys.  Those bugs should all be fixed now!  Get it again at the top.

File Size: 0KB

should be better now.  that’s rather annoying.  I’m using Safari on a mac and the post takes forever to publish, but once it goes through it shows me the correct file size, then when I check back the file size is 0?  Strange.

I’ve updated the extension again to support multiple files.  Enable it in the extension manager by clicking on settings.  If you have multiple files enabled you can use the following template structure:

Where [field_name] is the short name of your field.  For example I have a field named article_image so my structure would look like this:

If you don’t have multiple files turned on then you can just use the single variable like so {article_image}.

If you’re using this extension in combination with any of my other extensions it is highly recommended that you update all of them or field data may not enter correctly.  You can find links to the individual posts below:

Checkbox: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/38843/
Multi Drop-down List: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/38370/
Multi Text: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/39153/
File: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/38997/

Or you can find a list of them on my docs page: http://docs.markhuot.com

There’s a bug. This File ext. doesn’t allow creating new custom fields (I created a new Group).

I get

MySQL ERROR:

Error Number: 1054

Description: Unknown column ‘field_download_directory’ in ‘field list’

Query: INSERT INTO `exp_weblog_fields` (`group_id`, `field_id`, `field_name`, `field_label`, `field_instructions`, `field_type`, `field_pre_populate`, `field_related_to`, `field_maxl`, `field_ta_rows`, `field_list_items`, `field_download_directory`, `field_related_orderby`, `field_related_sort`, `field_related_max`, `field_fmt`, `field_show_fmt`, `field_text_direction`, `field_required`, `field_search`, `field_is_hidden`, `field_order`, `field_related_id`) VALUES (‘5’, ’‘, ‘stbody’, ‘stbody’, ’‘, ‘text’, ‘n’, ‘blog’, ‘128’, ‘6’, ’‘, ’‘, ‘title’, ‘desc’, ‘0’, ‘xhtml’, ‘y’, ‘ltr’, ‘n’, ‘n’, ‘n’, ‘29’, ‘4’)

If I disable the File ext., I can create custom fields.

Thanks!