modifying PEAR: HTTP_Upload package

Thursday, October 7. 2004

While working on a project that allows the admin to upload files, images ..etc using web forms I tried the HTTP_Upload package. It's wonderful.
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I stumbled across a problem, when you want to have unique file names, it uses a certain method to generate unique names, which results in really long & ugly file names( e.g. 'ghsjd23786djs4.png' ).

If you were uploading files that you want an end user to download this is not acceptable, a pdf user guide should have a descriptive name( e.g 'userGuide.pdf' ). So I have patched the package and modified it to allow for a naming mode which i called sequence. If a file with the same name exists, it'll start a sequence.

So for example if i'm uploading a file called 'userGuide.pdf' And a file with the same name exists in the directory it'll have the name 'userGuide[1].pdf' the next file will be 'userGuide[2].pdf' and so forth.

I will post the code as soon as I clean things up. I have discussed my modifications with the Package maintainer and others on the PEAR-Developers mailing list. Seems like this is a feature everybody is excited to have. Most probably you're gonna find my patch in the next stable release of the package

Read the discussion between me and the other developers.

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sounds very cool !! gr8 work !
But hey, what if the userGuide.pdf was the same as userGuide[1].pdf ?? (same size at least !) you'll have 2 files with different name but same content ? is it useful ?

I'm not using the HTTP_Upload package, but in my website I have projects where members can upload files with script, image ...Etc .. If a file name already exist with the same size, it notice the member and told him that "maybe your file already exist" ? if he's the owner of the old file, he can change it, otherwise he have to change the name ! more complex, but this limit unuseful doubles !

#1 Aikanáro Calaelen (Homepage) on 2004-10-13 03:50 (Reply)

That would be a nice feature. But I don't beleive it should be handled in the same package. IT's better to seperate this functionality.

#2 Ammar Ibrahim (Homepage) on 2004-10-13 06:48 (Reply)

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#3 Ammar Ibrahim's Blog » Enhancing PEAR::HTTP_Upload (Homepage) on 2004-11-29 13:49 (Reply)

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