Dumbed down upload for a form (points to file-ft on the stream)

Created 3 years ago by edster

I 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.

ryanthompson — 3 years ago Best Answer

Try this out too: https://github.com/anomalylabs/upload-field_type

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edster — 3 years ago

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?

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ryanthompson — 3 years ago Best Answer

Try this out too: https://github.com/anomalylabs/upload-field_type

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edster — 3 years ago

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']);
    }

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