By phl3tch on

Can anyone suggest a way to change the name of a file uploaded via CCK/filefield based on a user-submitted name? Clearly it would be simplest if they just changed the name before uploading the file, but for whatever reason I have a client that is insisting on this capability. Ideally I'd like another field in my custom content type with the new filename, which would be applied on uploading.

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phl3tch commented

nudge...?

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arvind commented

hello

were you able to find a solution for this? i have also been looking for a similair feature for my website.

i agree that a field in the settings should possibly help solve this issue.

any other ideas?

arvi

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arvind commented

i changed the insert value for the file table from $file[filename] to $file['description']

function filefield_file_insert($node, &$file, $field) {
  $fieldname = $field['field_name'];
  if ($file = file_save_upload((object)$file, file_directory_path() . '/'.$file['filename'])) {
    $file = (array)$file;
    $file['fid'] = db_next_id('{files}_fid');
    db_query('INSERT into {files} (fid, nid, filename, filepath, filemime, filesize)  
             VALUES (%d, %d, "%s","%s","%s",%d)',
    // modified to insert filename $file['fid'], $node->nid, $file['filename'], $file['filepath'], $file['filemime'], $file['filesize']);
            $file['fid'], $node->nid, $file['filename'], $file['filepath'], $file['filemime'], $file['filesize']);
    return (array)$file;
  }
  else {
    // Include file name in upload error.
    form_set_error(NULL, t('file upload was unsuccessful.'));
    return FALSE;
  }
}

to 

function filefield_file_insert($node, &$file, $field) {
  $fieldname = $field['field_name'];
  if ($file = file_save_upload((object)$file, file_directory_path() . '/'.$file['filename'])) {
    $file = (array)$file;
    $file['fid'] = db_next_id('{files}_fid');
    db_query('INSERT into {files} (fid, nid, filename, filepath, filemime, filesize)  
             VALUES (%d, %d, "%s","%s","%s",%d)',
    // modified to insert filename $file['fid'], $node->nid, $file['filename'], $file['filepath'], $file['filemime'], $file['filesize']);
            $file['fid'], $node->nid, $file['description'], $file['filepath'], $file['filemime'], $file['filesize']);
    return (array)$file;
  }
  else {
    // Include file name in upload error.
    form_set_error(NULL, t('file upload was unsuccessful.'));
    return FALSE;
  }
}

If you now upload the file and change the description of the file it lists it as the text specified

phl3tch’s picture

phl3tch commented

Cool. Wish I could remember why I was trying to do this though...

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cmurockstar commented

I found the location for setting the link to the file in filefield_formatter.inc
return '

'. $icon . l($file['filename'], $url) .'

';

however, i am unclear how to get at the description of the file to replace 'filename'.... any help for a new Drupal 6 user?

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cmurockstar commented

So you change $file['filename'] to $file['data']['description']

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weedoo commented

There is the Token module that seems to be working when it comes to renaming files paths. I was looking at the filefield_file_insert function and found this piece of code in it ;)

  // allow tokenized paths.
  if (function_exists('token_replace')) {
    global $user;
    $widget_file_path = token_replace($field['widget']['file_path'], 'user', $user);
  }
  else {
    $widget_file_path = $field['widget']['file_path'];
  }

So I guess in the field settings you can just use the accepted tokens and they will be changed at the saving step.