i'm trying to make vacancies plugin for my website (corporate website where users can submit their job offer application).
What i am trying to achieve:
User goes to specified page
User uploads file with regard to the provided guidelines
Script saves file in the specified folder and gets name of the file as the name of the applicant
Script adds information to database (id, applicant_name, file_path, created_on, updated_on)
Admin can view application in the backend
I've managed to achieve first 4 goals, however i have no idea on how to allow administrator to get the link to the file from the backend.
I'm using models to store information in the database. On the backend i can see when the file is uploaded and what is the name of the applicant. However, what im trying to do is when administrator clicks on the item in the list (model default update page), he should be prompted with the link to download file.
Here are few screenshots:
Form to send the CV
Backend View
Here administrator should be able to get the link to download file (maybe, later i will do integration with Office Online Document Viewer)
Database view after file has been submitted
Anyone have an idea on how to provide such functionality to the administrator?
Maybe, to simplify question even more, i will put it this way:
How can i get Model object in the update.htm in the controller file, so i can access all of the fields of the model from this file. Right now it uses
$this->renderForm();
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I have a WordPress site. There are user levels (0.Basic, 1.Contributor, 2.Researcher, 3.Editor, 4.Admin).
I have data in excel documents. What i need is lvl 2+ registered Users , can edit and add their data to an excel document with out editing the previous data. Now the Admin need to take a notification for that change (Example , username added some data to that file) , see the changes and update or delete the current excel file.
For now the only think im thinking of is that the user sends an excel file via a form upload to the admin and then the admin manually can do the changes.
I wanna know how i can do this cause later on i need to plot those data in charts in specific pages.
Thnx a lot.
I'm developing a web site with codeigniter + grocery crud.
I really like the upload file feature from grocery crud.
But I'm wondering if it's possible to pick a file from a server folder instead of uploading it. I mean just put the name of the file in the field.
I don't want to write more than what is needed.
Edit: I want the user to be able to do both: upload a file, or pick it from a server folder.
I've been asking myself the same question. I was thinking in doing it like this:
1 - Create a Media Library table (Wordpress style) and store all the file uploads in a table.
2 - Add a relation field to select images form this table.
http://www.grocerycrud.com/examples/set_a_relation
The basic relation field will generate a select that allows you to select images by name, id, description, etc.
This is not very user friendly, so I guess you'll have to write one or two callback functions to show the users the image they are selecting
this is the approach I'll be using on my next codeigniter+grocerycrud project :)
Good luck!
Suppose we have the web application which handle create, read, update and delete articles and each article should have gallery of images. I have to make one to one relation between Article and Gallery and one to many relation between Gallery and Media.
HTML5 gives a lot of features like multiupload, so I want to use this excellent http://blueimp.github.io/jQuery-File-Upload/ plugin for that. The problem is how to handle the file upload "in memory" like other form's data?
For example when we show the page for create new article we should be able to fill in article's data fields and select images to upload, next when we click the save button the images should start upload and after that the form should submit. When validation fails the images should be still displayed on the frontend, but on the server-side nothink should be saved.
One of the solutions is create somethink like "create entity session temporary id" before displaying the entire form and that id can be used to create temporary directory for save uploads, so after success saved form these images can be moved to appropriate directory, but how to make the "create entity session temporary id"?
The other solution I think is the "with the edit id" approach, because we can handle the uploads with previously saved gallery id, but sometimes I can't save new blank article with gallery, cause some of the fields should't be empty in db.
For the Rails I saw https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip gem which in the Readme says:
Paperclip is intended as an easy file attachment library for Active Record. The intent behind it was to keep setup as easy as possible and to treat files as much like other attributes as possible. This means they aren't saved to their final locations on disk, nor are they deleted if set to nil, until ActiveRecord::Base#save is called.
My question is how it works?
The problem with enabling file uploads on the create mask is that you eventually end up with orphaned files. This is because a user is able to trigger the upload without saving the actual entity. While creating a very own UploadBundle I thought about this problem for a while and came to the conclusion that there is no truly proper solution.
I ended up implementing it like this:
Given the fact that our problem arise from orphaned files, I created an Orphanage which is in charge of managing these files. Uploaded files will first be stored in a separate directory, along with the session_id. This helps distinguishing files across different users. After submitting the form to create the actual entity, you can retrieve the files from the orphanage by using only your session id. If the form was valid you can move the files from the temporary orphanage directory to the final destination of your files.
This method has some pitfalls:
The orphanage directory itself should be cleaned on a regular basis using a cron job or the like.
If a user will upload files and choose not to submit the form, but instead start over with a new form, the newly uploaded files are going to be moved in the same directory. Therefore you will get both the files uploaded the first time and the second time after getting the uploaded files.
This is not the ultimate solution to this problem but more of a workaround. It is in my opinion however cleaner than using temporary entities or session based storage systems.
The mentioned bundle is available on Github and supports both Orphanage and the jQuery File Uploader plugin.
1up-lab/OneupUploaderBundle
I haven't work with the case personaly, but my co-worker had similar conundrum. She used
punkave/symfony2-file-uploader-bundle
It's a bundle that wrapps jQuery File Upload plugin. It is in the early stages and a lot of things are missing, such as event, but we gave it a shot.
That's what we do: in newAction() we create entity, generate unique dir ID, and store the ID in entity (via regular setDirId()). Than we create the form, which contains hidden field dirId.
We are uploading the files to temp dir on server via ajax, not during the submit. Ajax request requires the ID. It stores files in temp_dir/prefix_ID
Than it's quite simple. Form is sent. If form is valid - move files from temp to dest dir. If not - we have the ID, and are able to show the images.
However, we do not save information about individual files in a separate table in the database. Every time we read the contents of the folder that corresponds to our dirId.
I know it's not the solution You are asking for. It's rather a workaround.
I am using elfinder file manager in one of my project. I am developing my project in PHP. I am new with using this file manager.
Now, I want to execute an SQL query when file will be uploaded and want to put track of each file uploaded with each user separately. So I am not getting that how to customize this thing.
For Example, I am a user and I have registered. Each user has their separate account and they can upload their files there in his/her account.
Now, suppose I am user and uploading 1 image in my account. So when I am uploading my file. I want to insert that file name, size and all other details with user_id in my database table. So I can manage track of each user uploaded files.
Please any one can help me here for this?
Thanks in ADVANCE
You can use custom callbacks. For example, after uploading make ajax request, which save file parameters to db.
I am using elfinder file manager in one of my project. I am developing my project in PHP. I am new with using this file manager.
Now, I want to execute an SQL query when file will be uploaded and want to put track of each file uploaded with each user separately. So I am not getting that how to customize this thing.
For Example, I am a user and I have registered. Each user has their separate account and they can upload their files there in his/her account.
Now, suppose I am user and uploading 1 image in my account. So when I am uploading my file. I want to insert that file name, size and all other details with user_id in my database table. So I can manage track of each user uploaded files.
Please any one can help me here for this?
Thanks in ADVANCE
If i am not wrong you want to know how to store uploaded files data in database then You must read php manual about file upload feature
on other hand you just need to explore $_FILES array as it contains all details of Uploaded file