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I’m thinking about ways of creating a custom file upload field in Member Profiles (to store a CV in this case).

I had hoped for something elegant like exists for weblogs, but can’t find any extensions which appear to enable this.  I’m also not all that keen on re-purposing avatar or signature fields since we might be wanting those later. My current system of a separate weblog for these data feels a little cobbled-together, so I’m hoping somebody here will suggest a head-slap easy way that I’ve managed to ignore.

Thanks!

Hi Scott, interested to hear how you solved this issue, we have a similar requirement here on a current project. 😊

Well, we haven’t really.  It seems like we’re just going to store the URL in a custom field then use a Flash file manager to deal with that field in a user-friendly way.  Let me know if you find something more-cool!

Sorry, posted with wrong user account! Yes I think we might end up coding an extension or something to handle this. I’ll post back here with our results! 😊

Just curious of what you all did with this? Would you like to share?

Brad

We’ve ended up using the solspace user module and have the written an extension which hooks into this to allow for any file to attached to a member profile, storing the file URL in a custom member profile field. 😊

Yep,

I am going the same direction. Was hoping just to grab something for the file upload but doesn’t look like that will be happening. Thanks!

Brad

Well if you’re using the Solspace user module here’s an extension to that which you can use to add a file upload feature (attached).

Example template code:

{exp:user:edit form_name="edit-profile" form_id="edit-profile" member_id="{logged_in_member_id}" password_required="n" required="location" return="/member/profile/edit/updated"}
Upload DOC or PDF

<input type="file" name="attachment_filename" />{if attachment_filename} or <input type="submit" class="btn_del" name="remove_attachment" value="Delete?" />{/if}
<input type="submit" class="btn" value="Submit" />
{/exp:user:edit}

Obviously you’ll need to create a custom member profile field called ‘attachment_filename’ and then specify the following in the extension settings:

* File upload folder (no trailing slash, full server path) 
* The short name of the custom profile field to upload from
* The maximum file size of uploads in MB

That’s it, hope someone finds this useful! 😊

Thanks a ton! Worked perfectly. One question though. Did you write it to intentionally use the random name it gives the file name or can you set it to keep the original file name?

Regards,

Brad

We set it to generate a md5 hash of the filename on purpose but this could easily be changes by editing line 125 to:

$file_name = $parts[0].'.'.$parts[1];

😊

Thanks again. This works great. Just to note to others. You have to make some changes if you want to use this extension on a site where you have more then one template to user:edit because the code runs on all user forms and will give you a custom field error.

Well spotted! I guess we could add an option to the extension to specify a form id or similar upon which the extension should come into play.

This really is a super handy extension. A nice upload=“y” in the user edit tag would be great. This is great for bio resumes, vitas, etc…

Brad

I’m not sure if we could pick that parameter up from the extension but I’ll check with our developer. We’re also using it to allows a user to attach a CV to their profile. Incidentally I don’t think the file size and type check is working correctly at present (just so you are aware).

I’m not sure if we could pick that parameter up from the extension but I’ll check with our developer. We’re also using it to allows a user to attach a CV to their profile. Incidentally I don’t think the file size and type check is working correctly at present (just so you are aware).

Hi Nathan,

Is there an easy way to allow uploading other file types? Eg: TIFF, JPG etc

Regards
Martin