Uploadify File Rename - php

Question

I'm using the Uploadify jQuery plugin for PHP to upload a file. One thing I am stuck on is that I need to be able to rename the file being uploaded so that I can post that information to my script that inserts data into the mysql database. Can anyone please advise on how to do this?
Thanks,
Jake

Answer 1

Firstly rename the filename as you want in your uploadify.php
Then you just need to return $targetPath from your uploadify.php file, like this --
echo $targetPath
no need to use echo '1'
And now you have to get the renamed file name. You can get this in onUploadSuccess function.
onUploadSuccess() takes three parameters (file, data, response),
where file gives you the actual name of file you browsed through your computer, and data gives you the renamed file name which you generated through your uploadify.php code as per your requirement.
So you can try the below code --
'onUploadSuccess' : function(file, data, response) {
alert('Renamed file name is - ' + data);
}
I hope this will help out. One of my friend told me this, and I got my work done then :)

Answer 2

you can do like this :-
$targetFolder = FCPATH.'/resources/images/users/temp/'; // Relative to the root
if (!empty($image))
{
$time=strtotime("now");
$image['Filedata']['name']=$time.'.jpg';
$tempFile = $image['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
$targetPath = $targetFolder.$image['Filedata']['name'];
// Validate the file type
$fileTypes = array('jpg','jpeg','gif','png'); // File extensions
$fileParts = pathinfo($image['Filedata']['name']);
if (in_array($fileParts['extension'],$fileTypes))
{
move_uploaded_file($tempFile,$targetPath);
echo '1';
}
else
{
echo 'Invalid file type.';
}
}

Answer 3

If you use uploadify.php just go right before the function move_uploaded_files and change the target name.
Anyways you do it this should work. Post the code you have if you want a more detailed answer.

Answer 4

This will put file in new folder with same file name as source file
$source = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
$filename = $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];
$newPath = $folder.'/'.$filename;
rename($source, $newPath);
/*----------------------*/
to have a new filename
function getExtension($path)
{
$result = substr(strtolower(strrchr($path, '.')), 1);
$result = preg_replace('/^([a-zA-Z]+)[^a-zA-Z].*/', '$1', $result);
if ($result === 'jpeg' || empty($result) === true) {
$result = 'jpg';
}
return $result;
}
$source = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
$filename = $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];
$newfileName=$folder."/"."abc".getExtension($filename);
rename($source, $newfileName);