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  • September 7, 2018 at 5:51 PM #11274
    1E Marketing1E Marketing
    Participant

    Hello Folks

    I have a bit different requirement. We would like to upload files on specific destination like in my root (/downloads) . Currently its uploading on my uploads directory. I want to upload in different folder.

    Full Scenario:

    We are uploading two files(PDF) for all posts. 1 for public download and 1 for gated like people will fill the form and would be able to download.

    so While adding a post we have two file type options for upload the files. now we want to upload the file on ROOT_PATH/downloads and ROOT_PATH/downloads/gated

    Please help me with this. Thanks in advance.

    September 10, 2018 at 6:40 PM #11299
    1E Marketing1E Marketing
    Participant

    Any update On the same

    September 11, 2018 at 8:39 AM #11304
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    Hi Lucjan,

    Sorry for the delay. This feature was asked before in the forum and we haven't done it yet. We'll let you know when it's ready.

    Thanks,
    Anh

    January 28, 2019 at 12:17 PM #13143
    1E Marketing1E Marketing
    Participant

    Any update on this..

    January 29, 2019 at 11:07 PM #13156
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    Hi Lucjan,

    We've just finished the feature and the code is available on Github. Please download and try it.

    In a couple of days, I'll release a new version of Meta Box and write a tutorial about that.

    To upload to custom folder, please use file field and set a new attribute upload_dir to the path of the new folder, like this:

    array(
    'type' => 'file',
    'id' => 'f',
    'name' => 'File',
    'upload_dir' => '/path/to/your/folder/', // You can use ABSPATH . '/downloads/'
)
    January 30, 2019 at 6:16 PM #13166
    david.hdavid.h
    Participant

    Hi Anh,

    Could this be used to restrict users to accessing their own upload directory/files in the Media Library, an often requested feature in many forums.

    The concept would appear to integrate nicely with all the Metabox upload fields, for example:

    https://docs.metabox.io/fields/image-upload/

    where the array attribute 'upload_dir' uses/creates a "home" folder which could be a user's wordpress ID or an secure, unique algorithmic hash.

    Thanks,
    David

    January 31, 2019 at 11:33 AM #13171
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    Hi David,

    There is a plugin that help you to do that.

    Or your can use a snippet.

    January 31, 2019 at 6:40 PM #13173
    david.hdavid.h
    Participant

    Hi Anh,

    Thanks for the pointers, I have come across those before, although I'm interested in logical and structural separation.

    Would this pseudocode work, and could Metabox handle being returned an error?

    
array(
    'upload_dir' => fnCreateOrReturnFolder
)

fnCreateReturnFolder {
    $userdir = get_current_user_id()
    if $userdir != 0 {
        $userdirpath = '/path/to/users/folders/' . $userdir
        if ( !file_exists($userdirpath) ) {
            if ( wp_mkdir_p( $userdirpath ) ) {
                return $userdirpath
            }
        }
    }
    return 'error'
}
    February 1, 2019 at 11:11 AM #13181
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    I think it works. The upload_dir accepts a string, which is a full path to the upload folder. So you might set it to something like 'upload_dir' => your_function(), e.g., the result of the function.

    February 4, 2019 at 8:42 PM #13204
    david.hdavid.h
    Participant

    Thanks Anh,

    I had shown your suggestion in my snippet:

    'upload_dir' => fnCreateOrReturnFolder

    Although I'm interested in how Metabox would handle an error creating or retrieving the folder, whereupon in the snippet I have set it to return 'error' instead of the folder path?

    February 11, 2019 at 4:18 PM #13257
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    Hi David,

    If the folder is not successfully created, or there's any error when uploading files to that folder (for various reasons such as exceed max file size upload, file type is not allowed, folder permission, etc.), then the file simply not uploaded and saved.

    At the moment, we don't have an error reporting. So, if you don't see any value saved, you just know something wrong.

    February 24, 2019 at 4:42 PM #13453
    EddyPiVEddyPiV
    Participant

    Hi Anh,

    Great feature!

    I would like to use it in a multisite installation. Is there a way to upload it to an upload folder within that subsite, without hardcoding the sitenumber in the path?

    For multisite installation the regualar path is ../wp-contents/uploads/sites/<sitenumber>/<foldername>.
    Is it possible to specify as path ../wp-contents/uploads/<foldername>, and that automatically the /sites/ and sitenumber are added?

    It would make setting up a new subsite so much easier...

    February 26, 2019 at 10:28 AM #13476
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    Hi,

    To avoid the complexity, I avoided using predefined variables for things like site number in multisite network. But you can always do that with a little code, like this:

    function prefix_get_site_upload_dir() {
    return WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/uploads/sites/' . get_current_blog_id() . '/my_uploads/';
}

    And in the field settings, set:

    'upload_dir' => prefix_get_site_upload_dir(),

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