Examples¶
Basic example¶
Note: You may want to define the Upload behavior before the core Translate Behavior as they have been known to conflict with each other.
CREATE table users (
id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
username varchar(20) NOT NULL,
photo varchar(255)
);
<?php
namespace App\Model\Table;
use Cake\ORM\Table;
class UsersTable extends Table
{
public function initialize(array $config)
{
$this->table('users');
$this->displayField('name');
$this->primaryKey('id');
$this->addBehavior('Josegonzalez/Upload.Upload', [
// You can configure as many upload fields as possible,
// where the pattern is `field` => `config`
//
// Keep in mind that while this plugin does not have any limits in terms of
// number of files uploaded per request, you should keep this down in order
// to decrease the ability of your users to block other requests.
'photo' => []
]);
}
}
?>
<?php echo $this->Form->create('User', ['type' => 'file']); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('User.username'); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('User.photo', ['type' => 'file']); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->end(); ?>
Using the above setup, uploaded files cannot be deleted. To do so, a field must be added to store the directory of the file as follows:
CREATE table users (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`username` varchar(20) NOT NULL,
`photo` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`photo_dir` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);
<?php
<?php
namespace App\Model\Table;
use Cake\ORM\Table;
class UsersTable extends Table
{
public function initialize(array $config)
{
$this->table('users');
$this->displayField('name');
$this->primaryKey('id');
$this->addBehavior('Josegonzalez/Upload.Upload', [
'photo' => [
'fields' => [
// if these fields or their defaults exist
// the values will be set.
'dir' => 'photo_dir', // defaults to `dir`
'size' => 'photo_size', // defaults to `size`
'type' => 'photo_type', // defaults to `type`
],
],
]);
}
}
?>
<?php echo $this->Form->create('User', ['type' => 'file']); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('User.username'); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('User.photo', ['type' => 'file']); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('User.photo_dir', ['type' => 'hidden']); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->end(); ?>
Displaying links to files in your view¶
Once your files have been uploaded you can link to them using the HtmlHelper by specifying the path and using the file information from the database.
This example uses the default behaviour configuration using the model Example.
<?php
// assuming an entity that has the following
// data that was set from your controller to your view
$entity = new Entity([
'photo' => 'imageFile.jpg',
'photo_dir' => '7'
]);
$this->set('entity', $entity);
// You could use the following to create a link to
// the image (with default settings in place of course)
echo $this->Html->link('../files/example/image/' . $entity->photo_dir . '/' . $entity->photo);
?>
You can optionally create a custom helper to handle url generation, or contain that within your entity. As it is impossible to detect what the actual url for a file should be, such functionality will never be made available via this plugin.