Uploads to individual folders

[Parisi]

I want users to be able to upload files (and keep a record of each upload) to a private folder for each user. How might I accomplish this?

Thanks!
Paul.

 

[troester]

The upload directory is passed through replacement code, so images/stories/{$my->id} would be replaced with the current user's id (see tooltip in fileupload element settings).
I've added the tooltip to the WIKI now.
http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/file-upload-element/

 

[Parisi]

Troester - thank you so much for answering the question in a helpful fashion. I can't tell you how many time answers are just not helpful at all. I think this could be the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with Fabrik!

Thanks again!

Paul.

 

[Parisi]

A follow up question on this - is it possible for me to run a function on the id? For example a salted md5 to deter people from guessing the path?

 

[cheyennemtnman]

Any thoughts on this regarding keeping folders secure from guessing or such...

 

[cheesegrits]

Not really, no.

I could possibly add something like @Parisi suggested, of a salted MD5, like the result of an md5 hash of the user ID concatenated with the Joomla global secret, so you would have (say) {$my->salt} you could use.

And of course you can use random file names, which is pretty effective.

-- hugh