mmcclung - 04 July 2008 10:36 AM

Hey, Leevi—

cool functionality, though i’m hitting a speedbump; I can upload a file successfully to right directory, but the custom field entry in my weblog is now

{filedir_3}foo_file.aif

with the curlybraces and all. is this expected behavior?

end goal is to able to {exp:extract_url} the filename for other users to download, but right now that plugin seems to gack on the curlybraces in my custom field.

The {filedir_3} is correct, EE automatically will parse that to display the correct folder.

When you output the custom field to a template does it display “http://www.example.com/upload_folder/filename.ext”? or does it show “{filedir_3}filename.ext”?

have you also tried using extract url plus 2?

it shows “{filedir_3}filename.ext”

{exp:ee_typography format=none} extracts the URL successfully (not sure why {exp:extract_url} failed, but there you go).

{exp:phpstringfun function=“ltrim” par1=”{filedir_3}”} makes the field presentation-pretty.

big props to leevi for another useful hunk o’ code

Hey Levi,

I am currently using this extension as it is downloaded today.

Here is my form and I am getting “Your section entry must have a title.”

Can you tell me where I am going wrong?

Thanks
-Lee

Figured it out.

It is conflicting with the custom fields. If I manually input the ids and fields its fine.

Thanks!

-Lee

Adam George - 03 July 2008 01:05 AM

Leevi - What type of custom field does the custom field have to be? Text?

Yep a text field will be perfect.

mmcclung - 06 July 2008 06:54 AM

it shows “{filedir_3}filename.ext”

{exp:ee_typography format=none} extracts the URL successfully (not sure why {exp:extract_url} failed, but there you go).

{exp:phpstringfun function=“ltrim” par1=”{filedir_3}”} makes the field presentation-pretty.

big props to leevi for another useful hunk o’ code

I think I will make an option in the final release to include the {filedir} prefix. It could get confusing tho if you change your mind half way through and some of your older images break.

Then again the two plugin solutions seem like an easy way to keep consistency.

Hi Levy,

I’m running EE v 1.6.3 with MSM 1.0 on PHP 4.4.8. I’ve been trying to use the extension and it doesn’t upload the file but it does insert the data into the weblog/database.

The code:

I’ve created a new upload destination (id=8) and if I have:

it doesn’t copy the value into the weblog.

So, I’m doing:

And that works to send the content to the DB.

Also, I have an .htaccess file to hide index.php in the URL but I don’t know if that can be related.

Any help will be welcome,

Many thanks,

Juan

Hi Leevi,

Looks like a great plug in, and after looking at a lot of options, am excited to get this working, but am running into a problem. I’m using the following code and it’s successfully uploading the file to the correct directory, but after hitting the submit button, I get a blank page (same URL as the submit form), and none of the info gets written to the database from either the select list field or the file field. Any ideas what might be going?

Also, if I just select one of the options in the select list and don’t upload a file, a weblog entry is successfully created.

Thanks for tackling this Leevi!

Paula

p.s. EE 1.6.1; PHP 5.2.0; MySQL 4.0.27

Juan, did you ever figure out what was going on? Am still trying to resolve the blank page/failure to populate fields problem and would love to get this working. Anybody run in to a similar situation and resolved it? Thanks!

EDITED: My silly mistake.

This plugin worked great meaning it did what i was supposed to. However, I can not load my control panel with it installed. I had to disable all extensions in the .config file to get in. Once inside the CP I enabled all extensions with the “enable button”, after which I disabled the the LG SAEF File Upload using the disable link.

Note: Simply deleting the extension didn’t work because the Control Panel would still look for the missing ext. file. It took a while of trial and error to figure that out.

I love the extention because it was working until I realized the next day that I couldn’t get in the CP. I have purchased from LG and use other LG stuff. Thanks for all your contributions to the EE world. I’m fast becoming an EE Addict!

Leevi,

Will this work if allowing multiple upload fields on one SAEF? We’ve run into troubles with multiple uploads with other extensions.

Thanks….

Yeah it should work for multiple file uploads… but only if each file has its own custom field. This extension will not support multiple uploads for the same field.

That sounds perfect…. thank you. If we have any more questions, we’ll let you know.

For anyone running into a blank screen when they try to upload a file, you might want to check out this thread. It worked for me, although it might not be an ideal solution for every site, given the security issues.

Has anyone attempted to port this to allow upload to S3?

If so I would love to know more!

-Lee

Leevi, does the extension go through EE’s normal security checks, filtering, etc?

The reason I ask is that in my file upload prefs I have set it to images only, but was able to upload a textfile saved with a jpg extension.

Yep it should. It uses EE’s native upload object which does all the checks. Can you upload a text file with a .jpg extension using the file upload box in the admin?