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I’m trying to modify the nGen File Field extension to make it create a separate folder for each author’s uploads.  Basically, I just want to add the “author_id” to the end of the “server_path.”

I have it working fine with a variable that I set with a static value for right now.  For example, instead of the path being “.../images/uploads/”  I can set it to “.../images/uploads/12345/”

Now I just need to know how I can get the author_id from within the extension.  Is there some class or function to get this information?

Maybe I over-complicated things in my previous post.  Simply:

Is there a {author_id} equivalent for extensions?

I’d be happy to do an SQL query to find the author_id, but I would need to do a “WHERE entry_id = X” but I don’t know how to get X either from within an extension.

So how can I get the current entry_id or author_id from within an extension?

the file field is a fieldframe extension, check the fieldframe developer docs:

http://pixelandtonic.com/fieldframe/docs/functions-reference#save_field

I shouldn’t have even mentioned the extension I’m trying to modify.  I’m just wondering how you get the current entry_id (or author_id, doesn’t matter) if I was writing an extension from scratch.  There has to be a built-in EE function to do this.

It seems like the entry_id is always available as GET or POST data in some way or another, so I may just resort to that.  But it seems like EE already has this information when the extensions load, and I should be able to just retrieve it.

I’ve resorted to just using GET and POST data for the entry_id, checking which one is set, and then using that to query the author_id.  Seems to work well.

my point was that the data your extension has access to depends on the hook it is fired from. many hooks supply a $data array.