Textpattern Support Forum

jstubbs

I’ve hit that error too. Have you added the mandatory enctype="multipart/form-data" to your call to mem_form to enable file uploads?

If that doesn’t do it, you can try this edit the plugin. Look for the following in the mem_form_file() function…

                                        if (is_uploaded_file($fname) and $max_file_size >= filesize($fname))
                                                mem_form_store($name, $label, $_FILES[$name]);
                                        elseif (!is_uploaded_file($fname)) {
                                               $mem_form_error[] = mem_form_gTxt('error_file_failed', array('{label}'=>$hlabel));
                                               $err = 1;
                                        }

… replace it with …

                                        if (is_uploaded_file($fname) and $max_file_size >= filesize($fname))
                                                mem_form_store($name, $label, $_FILES[$name]);
                                        elseif (!is_uploaded_file($fname)) {
                                               if ($required) {
                                                       $mem_form_error[] = mem_form_gTxt('error_file_failed', array('{label}'=>$hlabel));
                                                       $err = 1;
                                               }
                                        }

Hope that helps.

Mmm. I have this in the mem_form call:

txp:mem_form type="mem_moderation_article" label="" redirect="/my-classifieds/" redirect_form="mem_redirect_form" form_expired_msg="The form has expired. Please try again"

Because I am using this form along with mem_moderation_article, I am not sure how to use this new tag.

Jonathan

So – what is the best way to access the uploaded file? Particularly if the file is attached to a moderated article submission?

Depends what you want to do with it! If you’re just downloading via sftp or something — potentially nothing. If you want it automatically made available for access/download from your TXP installation you’ve got a little more work to do.

AFAIK, you’ll need to use a custom form for mem_moderation_article that includes a mem_form_file entry (and add the enctype to the enclosing mem_form.) After that you’ll need to do some custom handling of the uploaded file to transfer it into the txp files area & DB on successful submission/moderation acceptance of article.

This is essentially what sed_afu has been doing (sans the article stuff.) Now Manfre’s fixed up mem_form, I intend to rewrite sed_afu to use it

In the meantime, if I hit on the answer to your question I’ll let you know!

Sheru

My requirement: Actually our client need send bigger files using FTP. What I thought is, It would be better for the client(in terms of their convenience) to upload the stuff by going through the website. For this, I would first use ign_password_protect plugin to authenticate the user. If authentication is successful, then user will be shown upload form.

I’m assuming all these users are known clients right? Or will they be creating their own logins via mem_self_register too?

Upload file would be going to public_html/files folder. It’s not necessary to insert into the Txp’s files table. Is this possbile using the mem_form plugin and what about the security risk if yes?

Manfre’s plugin uploads the file to the $tempdir directory (/textpattern/tmp by default IIRC) with a random filename. If you want it moved and renamed — and that’s a pretty good idea — then you’ll need some code to do it. Manfre’s examples are the place to start but they only illustrate deletion of the uploaded file rather than moving it to another directory. At the very least you’d want to notify whoever’s going to download them of the location and name of the uploaded file.

If you don’t insert them into the DB you can’t use txp’s categories or other meta-info in your pages and forms to list them on your site so you’d have to rely on your webserver’s automatic indexing of the /files folder. This might not be a good idea if there is any confidential data in those documents.

Sheru, since you mentioned large file uploads, make sure that PHP, textpattern and mem_form are configured to allow files of the size you desire. The current restriction is 2 MB.

Jonathan, now that I have file upload support in mem_form, I am in the process of updating mem_moderation_image to support mem_form. This will have the functionality that you wanted when we last spoke about the tennis site.