Great Module, more details needed
tmbejoy - February 3, 2008 - 18:44
| Project: | Drupal FTP |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | critical |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Hi aaron,
at http://drupal.org/project/drupal_ftp you said " I made a custom module using this as an API that will copy Image files (during upload) to an ftp server, so they may be served from off-server. " This would be really great if we can store images in different servers one after other. I could save lots of webspace and bandwidth. I am very much interested in this module please provide more details about your custom module.
thanks
Bejoy Thomas
#1
I'm working on something similar. I'm building a site based around video sharing, and we need to upload the video files to a video hosting provider. I'm using the mediafield CCK module to get the video files uploaded by users, and then in videofield.module I've added an implementation of hook_nodeapi:
/*** Implementation of hook_nodeapi().
*/
function videofield_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $teaser = NULL, $page = NULL) {
switch ($op) {
case 'submit':
if($node->type == 'video') {
$ftp = drupal_ftp_ftp_object();
drupal_ftp_file_to_ftp($node->field_video_file[0]['filepath'], $node->field_video_file[0]['filename'], '/public_html/', $ftp);
}
break;
}
}
There are a couple of issues with this:
I'm sure the first issue can be overcome by making the FTP call later in the file submission process (i.e. after the incremented unique filename has been generated), but I've only been working with Drupal two weeks, so am not sure where to look yet - perhaps someone else can offer advice on this.
The second issue (along with some other requirements) mean that I'm not taking this process any further, and will instead use an asynchronous batch FTP process, but this sample should at least get you off in the right direction, and shows how simple it is to use the FTP API - thanks Aaron!