File upload to server

  • Ale

    (@aleloiacono)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    First of all, I’ve been researching since yesterday on Google and I’ve even searched in this forum, but haven’t find a solution.

    I need to create a form to collect video files and some basic info like name, e-mail address and so on, from artists, just one file per form submission. We need to get the original video files instead of a YouTube link because we need to edit those videos (I know YT videos can be downloaded, but… ). The thing is that getting the files as e-mail attachments is not a good idea, as artists will be sending us videos up to five minutes long and we have established a size limit of 1Gb., which makes it impossible to receive them as e-mail attachments. I basically need files to be stored in a folder in the server and be able to get the URL to the file on the e-mail that is sent to the person that reviews the video so he can download them.

    I’ve got the plugin Contact Form DB by Michael Simpson. Using that plugin, form responses get stored and there’s even a link to the file of each response, but files are not found. I guess that is because Contact Form 7 deletes the files after the e-mail is sent. I must say I tried a totally different plugin, but can’t get to display forms correctly no matter what CSS tweaking I do. And I much prefer CF7 forms that work so good.

    So… Is there an extension to CF7 or plugin that I am not finding to accomplish what I’ve described? Is there some tweak I can do on CF7 code to avoid files from being deleted? Please mind I’m no developer, but I am able to do some code tweaking here and there.

    Thank you very much,
    ALejandro

    Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    Sending 1 GB files through a general web form isn’t reasonable. I suggest you use a dedicated file sharing service like Dropbox or Google Drive.

    Thread Starter Ale

    (@aleloiacono)

    Takayuki,

    Thank you very much for your reply.

    I agree. In fact, my first goal was to create a WP form that would upload the file to a Google Drive folder, so the person in charge of this would receive an e-mail with the data submitted by the artist plus the link to download the corresponding file from the Google Drive folder. It seems that this could be accomplished with a plugin called Zapier, but it doesn’t work with CF7. I tried some of the other form plugins that do work with Zapier, but the three I tried has the file upload file as a premium feature that requires payment. The thing is that we are a small theater in Buenos Aires, city in which there is a quarantine since March 20th, we haven’t seen any money coming in since then, at this point we really depend on solutions that doesn’t involve money. We don’t know if what we are trying to do will get us any money or how much.

    I also tried using a simple Google Form. However, when you include a file upload field, it requieres users to be logged in with their Google Account and there are people that may not have one (yes, there still are).

    I deal with people that gets easily lost with digital things (artists that will submit their videos and the people I work with, I’m surrounded), that’s why I need to keep it really simple, I would prefer not to have them fill a form here and having to upload the file somewhere else. Of course, if that’s the only way, be it. But I will try some other workarounds to see if I can keep everyhting on the same form.

    Thank you again for your response!

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