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Hi everyone,

Hopefully someone can help me here 😊

I’m running nearly v 1.6 (1.5.2 only for the languages dir, because my install broke when I tried updating that to 1.6 for some reason). Everything seems to be running fine aside from that little problem.

Anyway, we’re doing a website with an online car database. Most of our database stuff is written with phpME and just runs on top of EE. We have a form for registered users to add the details about their car and it’s not approved until an admin checks out the listing and modifies it if necessary and then approves it. My problem is, I want to allow users to upload 1 image to go along with their car details they submit. I can’t find an easy way to do this. These are registered members, but not site admins, so it can’t be via the control panel

I read last night that there’s a member image field with I think would be exactly what we need for this, but I don’t know how to add the image upload field to our form.

Obviously there are things we’d need for this to be done *right*, like a file manager, or at least a way to view the image when approving the car listing, etc. But if someone could just point me in the right direction, preferably without having to write a bunch of code, buy an add-on, etc, etc, that would be great!

Thanks in advance!
Eric

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My problem is, I want to allow users to upload 1 image to go along with their car details they submit. I can’t find an easy way to do this.

Try Solspace’s “Freeform” or “File Upload” module, two possible ways. Freeform is free, too.

Thanks Ingmar,

Is there any built in way to do it though? Just to add upload and browse buttons to a form, and then have the image stored as the member image? How are member images stored currently? I would think just using the same mechanism would do what I need. All of these would get a standard size (say 320x240 offhand), so something that scales like a thumbnailer for avatars would be perfect.

Is this documented somewhere? 😊

Thanks again!
Eric

Well, you can allow your users to upload a “profile” photo, but they’d need to go into the backend for that. If, on the other hand, you want to use a SAEF, do take a look at File Upload. Documentation, both on EE and on Solspace’s offerings is plenty.

Would FreeForm allow me to use my existing custom form code, writing to a separate table, etc, to upload a photo?

How are the images uploaded for avatars in the forum? I don’t imagine everyone here has backend access?

Thanks,
-Eric

Freeform does allow file uploads in recent versions, yes. Avatars are uploaded via the member templates.

Thanks for the info Ingmar 😊

Can I access the member templates page without having forums enabled on our site? I think eventually we might, but I basically just need to get a photo uploaded by each member, to go with their stored car info. But it’s all in custom database code. I don’t know if Freeform will support using entirely custom code?

Eric

Yes, the member templates work without the forum, too. Freeform is an EE module, it will take form data, optionally do something with it (like signing someone up to a mailinglist, sending an email), then store it in the database and display it again on demand. I have no idea what “custom code” you’d like to have supported.

Okay maybe the member templates would be the way to go then? Where can I find info on that? This search doesn’t help, and without the quotes I get the wrong results:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q="member+template"+site:expressionengine.com/docs/&btnG=Search

Custom code in that it uses a lot of PHP stuff (with phpME), a separate set of tables from the EE standard tables, etc. I didn’t know if it was written to work only with the default EE tables possibly?

Information about the member module can be found, perhaps not surprisingly, in the docs. Freeform uses its own db tables.

So Freeform wouldn’t integrate with all of our existing code then?

Thanks for the link to the member module. The search didn’t work as expected on that I guess. I didn’t realize it was a module.

Thanks again,
Eric

It will, obviously, depend on your code. I am afraid it’s a bit like asking whether, I dunno, the image gallery or the weblog module will work with your existing code. It’s a simple form generator, it will take filled out forms, store them, and display them again. Since it’s a free module, though, why not simply try it to see if it fits your needs?

I follow your logic.. My problem is, I’ve put a TON of time into this already, spinning my wheels trying to figure out a lot of things with EE. So I’m trying to find something that I can just use. Instead of experimenting so much and not really getting any results. I already have all of the forms done in phpME code, and everything works. I just need to add a browse button and upload button to what I have written. This seems like such a simple thing.

I guess it actually needs to be tied to the data, and not the member providing the data, so that rules out the member photo thing. I’ll talk to my friend who did most of the phpME coding when he gets back from vacation and see if we can figure something out.

Thanks for your help 😊
Eric