Uploadable Behavior Plugin

Save random data in a key-value format.

Requirements

• PHP 5.2
• CakePHP 2.0+

Installation

[Manual]

1. Download this: http://github.com/mdunham/Uploadable-Behavior/zipball/master
2. Unzip that download.
3. Copy the resulting folder to app/Plugin
4. Rename the folder you just copied to Uploadable

[GIT Submodule]

In your app directory, type:

git submodule add git://github.com/mdunham/Uploadable-Behavior.git Plugin/Uploadable
git submodule init
git submodule update

[GIT Clone]

In your plugin directory, type:

git clone git://github.com/mdunham/Uploadable-Behavior.git Uploadable

Usage

For a real world example lets say I have a model named Recipe and it contains a field named photo. I want photo to be an uploaded file so I setup my model:

<?php

/**
* Recipe Model
*/
class Recipe extends AppModel {

/**
* Define the behavior of this model
*
* @var array
*/
public $actsAs = array(‘Uploadable.Uploadable’);
}

?>

Now I need to create my add.ctp page:

<?php
echo $this→Form→create(‘Recipe’, array(‘enctype’ => ‘multipart/form-data’));
echo $this→Form→input(‘title’);
echo $this→Form→input(‘photo’, array(‘type’ => ‘file’));
echo $this→Form→end(__(‘Submit’));
?>

Thats all I need to do to allow images to be uploaded. In my controller the code is the same:

public function admin_add() {
if ($this→request→is(‘post’)) {
$this→Recipe→create();
if ($this→Recipe→save($this→request→data)) {
$this→Session→setFlash((‘The recipe has been saved’));
$this→redirect(array(‘action’ => ‘index’));
} else {
$this→Session→setFlash((‘The recipe could not be saved. Please, try again.’));
}
}
$recipeCategories = $this→Recipe→RecipeCategory→find(‘list’);
$this→set(compact(‘recipeCategories’));
}

Options

Special Configuration

Example of a configuration:

This is the default which default will get applied to all fields:

$defaults = array(
‘default’ => array(
‘accept’ => array(
‘image/jpeg’ => array(‘jpg’, ‘jpeg’),
‘image/gif’ => array(‘gif’),
‘image/png’ => array(‘png’)
),
‘path’ => ‘media’,
‘prefix’ => ‘upload’
)
);

In your model you can define many options specifically if you want this to only work on a specific field rather than all just set defaults accept param to false:

$actsAs = array(
‘Uploadable’ => array(
‘default’ => array(‘accept’ => false),
‘photo’ => array(
‘accept’ => array(
‘image/jpeg’ => array(‘jpg’, ‘jpeg’),
‘image/gif’ => array(‘gif’),
‘image/png’ => array(‘png’)
),
‘path’ => ‘media’,
‘prefix’ => ‘upload’
)
)
);

Todo

• Better Readme
• Unit Tests

License

Copyright © 2011 Matthew Dunham

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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