By jdevries on

Hi all,

I am having some trouble getting this piece of code to work. It is run upon submitting a content type with a file field called 'picture'.

function picturehost_validate(&$node) {
  $file = picturehost_validate_file(file_check_upload('picture'), 'picture');
  if (!$file->error) {
    form_set_value(array('#parents' => array('picture')), (array) $file);
  } else {
    form_set_error('picture', $file->error);
  }
}

The picturehost_validate_file function checks to see if the uploaded file is an image that meets certain requirments. If true, it returns the $file object without error, else an error text is added to the $file object. All works great and a print_r($file) shows that file validation works as expected. The code also reaches the form_set_value line, but that is where problems arise. It is my understanding that this line should add the content of the $file object to the $node object, but this doesn't happen. $node->picture remains empty.

Any clues as to what I might be doing wrong?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

nofear’s picture

nofear commented

like this:

function picturehost_validate(&$node) {
  $file = picturehost_validate_file(file_check_upload('picture'), 'picture');
  if (!$file->error) {
    //form_set_value(array('#parents' => array('picture')), (array) $file);
    $node->picture = $file;
  } else {
    form_set_error('picture', $file->error);
  }
}

And then in the _submit function you can do what you need to do with the $node object...

Cheers, pip

nofear’s picture

nofear commented

Cheers, pip

jdevries’s picture

jdevries commented

... that is a really good question. I have no idea why that obviously simply idea slipped my mind. Inserting it immediately into $node appears to do the trick.

Thanks!