Dumbed down upload for a form (points to file-ft on the stream)
Created 1 year ago by edsterI have a stream that I need to allow people to upload a document to.
Document shouldn't be uploaded or saved before the form passes validation.
How is the best way to tackle this? I can't just use the files ft, because
- it uploads before the form goes anywhere or is validated.
- if you do allow it to upload, it displays and edit or cancel button, even though its already been uploaded.
- I need to force a naming standard for these files, or they will be overwriting each other all day long.
So I kinda sorta figured out a work around.
if I use
public function onSaving(Request $request, MountManager $manager, FolderRepositoryInterface $folders){
if ($document = $request->file('document')){
//The folder and disk this file should be saved in
$folder = $folders->findBySlug('slug');
$disk = $folder->getDisk();
//The current user and time
$user = $this->getFormEntry()->user;
$time = Carbon::now('America/Vancouver');
//We need to make sure the name is unique
$file_name = $user->id.' - '.$user->display_name.' - Access Request - '.$time->format('Y-m-d His').'.pdf';
//Place/Save the file
$file = $manager->put($disk->getSlug() . '://' . $folder->getSlug() . '/' . $file_name, file_get_contents($document->getRealPath()));
$this->getFormEntry()->file = $file->id;
}
}Then it will save the file then assign it to the form before form save.
However, this doesn't help with validation, I was hoping to be bale to just throw in a validator to add on, but that doesn't work. It also doesn't answer how do I actually get the input 'document' into the form.
I know if I had a basic file ft then I could handle the validation and other crap in there, but that is also giving me a headache.
Is there no easier way to handle this?
Try this out too: https://github.com/anomalylabs/upload-field_type
Ryan you are a gentleman and scholar! I wish I knew of that FT before as I was trying to replicate basically the same thing, just not as well lol.
For those curious this was my ending solution In protected $fields:
'document' => [
'required' => true,
'label' => 'Access Request',
'instructions' => 'Upload a signed request .',
'warning' => 'File must be a PDF',
'type' => 'anomaly.field_type.upload',
'config' => [
'folder' => 'slug',
'mimes' => ['pdf']
]
],Then:
public function onSaving(Request $request, MountManager $manager, FolderRepositoryInterface $folders){
if ($document = $request->file('document')){
//The folder and disk this file should be saved in
$folder = $folders->findBySlug('slug');
$disk = $folder->getDisk();
//The current user and time
$user = $this->getFormEntry()->user;
$time = Carbon::now('America/Vancouver');
//We need to make sure the name is unique
$file_name = $user->id.' - '.$user->display_name.' - Access Request - '.$time->format('Y-m-d His').'.pdf';
//Place/Save the file
$file = $manager->put($disk->getSlug() . '://' . $folder->getSlug() . '/' . $file_name, file_get_contents($document->getRealPath()));
$this->getFormEntry()->file = $file->id;
}
}
public function onPosting(){
$this->setSkips(['document']);
}
Try this out too: https://github.com/anomalylabs/upload-field_type