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I’ve got a file upload folder set-up and when I place the appropriate shortcode in my template it displays the full path (http://www.something.com/images/uploads/customfolder/filename.pdf)

what’s the easiest way to have it spit out the filename.pdf ONLY ?

(I’m about to do some PHP string editing but thought I’d ask first)

thanks

Hi Pirco

I’ve used File Oracle for this before: http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/file-oracle

Hope it helps, let us know how you get on…

Matt

Hi Pirco,

You can do this natively with ExpressionEngine when using a field type of “file”. In your code you would use the tag pair option.

{your_field_name}
file: {file_name}
{/your_field_name}

does this help? Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Sean

Hey Sean

Thanks for that! I learned something new today 😊

Hey pirco,

Does Sean’s solution sound good?

Let us know what you think and how things are going for you.

Cheers,

Hey guys,

I’m trying to use a file field variable pair in similar fashion to get some file info into a podcast feed and having no luck…

(condensed template code below…)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
{exp:channel:entries channel="podcasts" limit="1"}
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
 <channel>
  <title>{title}</title> 
  {reverse_related_entries orderby="date"}  
  <item>
           {audio_file}{file_name}<enclosure url="{url}" length="{file_size}" type="{mime_type}" >{/audio_file} 
  </item>  
  {/reverse_related_entries} 
  </channel>
{/exp:channel:entries}
</rss>

At work is a channel for podcasts and a channel for episodes that are related back to the podcast.

The audio_file pair returns the following:

<enclosure url="" length="{file_size}" type="{mime_type}" >

Everything else inside the reverse related entries works as expected.

The site is on 2.3.1, but I didn’t notice anything in the change log that would suggest this was a bug that was fixed in 2.4.

Thoughts?

Hey spcejunk,

I am sorry to hear you are running into this problem.

Are you using an Add-On to work with your RSS feed?

Please let me know and we will go from there.

Cheers,

No add-ons.

Hi spcejunk,

What if you take those three tags out of the enclosure. Do they get populated with the values? Just to test and see where this is breaking down.

Like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
{exp:channel:entries channel="podcasts" limit="1"}
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
 <channel>
  <title>{title}</title> 
  {reverse_related_entries orderby="date"}  

    {file_size}  {mime_type}  {url}   

  {/reverse_related_entries} 
  </channel>
{/exp:channel:entries}
</rss>

Let me know what that returns.

Thanks,

You would still need the file field open and close tags though, right?

Here’s a test I did to eliminate the reverse related entries as the source of the problem…

{exp:channel:entries channel="podcast_episodes" limit="1"}
{audio_file}
URL: {url}
File size: {file_size}
Mime type: {mime_type}
{/audio_file}
{/exp:channel:entries}

You can view the results of that here: http://www.stgeorgesepiscopal.net/podcast/test

Hi spcejunk,

I’m sorry to say, the issue here is those tags are only available in ExpressionEngine 2.4

If you want to take advantage of that native functionality, you’ll have to update.

Is there anything else we can assist you with?

Cheers,