[Plugin: Frontend Uploader] Layout and collecting data

Hey,

Regarding the first issue, plugin comes with no CSS at all, so you have the freedom to style it as you want. I might include some basic styles in the future release. Thanks for bringing that up.

Regarding the second one, it requires additional setup involving configuration filter. Place something like that in your functions.php.

<?php
add_action( 'fu_after_upload', 'my_fu_after_upload' );

function my_fu_after_upload( $attachment_ids ) {
    // do something with freshly uploaded files
    // This happens on POST request, so $_POST will also be available for you
    foreach( $attachment_ids as $att_id ) {
    	// Format the title
    	$author = 'By ' . $_POST['name'];
    	$author .= ' ' . $_POST['email'];
    	// Sanitize input from user
    	$author .= sanitize_text_field( $author );
    	wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $att_id, 'post_title' => $author ) );
    }
}

Let me know if that makes any sence.

Hi Rinat,

I’ve been trying something similar here, and the $_POST variables get returned as “Array”. For instance, I tried the snip you pasted above, and the title of the uploaded file was set to “By Array Array”. Do you know why this would be?

Plugin is working great otherwise.

Thanks

Sorry digidale,

I didn’t test the code, here’s the proper version, that one should work.

<?php
add_action( 'fu_after_upload', 'my_fu_after_upload' );

function my_fu_after_upload( $attachment_ids ) {
    // do something with freshly uploaded files
    // This happens on POST request, so $_POST will also be available for you
    foreach( $attachment_ids as $att_id ) {
		// Format the title
    	$author = 'By ' . $_POST['name'][0];
    	$author .= ' ' . $_POST['email'][0];
    	// Sanitize input from user
    	$author = sanitize_text_field( $author );
    	wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $att_id, 'post_title' => $author ) );
    }
}

thanks Rinat, got it now! Great plugin – 5 stars for you my friend.

Hi Rinat,

I’m trying to copy the same form and I’ve added the action to my function file, but I’m getting the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/saffyre9/public_html/jenandjp_ca/wp-content/themes/Feather/functions.php on line 323

I’m not really familiar enough with PHP to understand where the issue is.

Hey saffyre9,

I think you forgot to copy the last closing bracket.

Hi Rinat,

I’ve got the closing ?> bracket, and don’t see a missing } bracket.

This is eactly what I’ve got:

<?php
add_action( 'fu_after_upload', 'my_fu_after_upload' );

function my_fu_after_upload( $attachment_ids ) {
    // do something with freshly uploaded files
    // This happens on POST request, so $_POST will also be available for you
    foreach( $attachment_ids as $att_id ) {
		// Format the title
    	$author = 'By ' . $_POST['name'][0];
    	$author .= ' ' . $_POST['email'][0];
    	// Sanitize input from user
    	$author = sanitize_text_field( $author );
    	wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $att_id, 'post_title' => $author ) );
    }
}
?>

Hey saffyre9,
Can you post here what’s on line 323 and before it?

323 is the opening of <?php for this action. 322 is the closing ?> of the previous action.

?>
 <?php
add_action( 'fu_after_upload', 'my_fu_after_upload' );

Hmm that means that the problem is before 322 line, still, it’s gotta be missing bracket.

Ok, thanks Rinat, I’ll keep looking!

Dawn

I just updated the plugin and fixed underlying bug, so the new snippet will look like:

<?php
add_action( 'fu_after_upload', 'my_fu_after_upload' );

function my_fu_after_upload( $attachment_ids ) {
    // do something with freshly uploaded files
    // This happens on POST request, so $_POST will also be available for you
    foreach( $attachment_ids as $att_id ) {
		// Format the title
    	$author = 'By ' . $_POST['name'];
    	$author .= ' ' . $_POST['email'];
    	// Sanitize input from user
    	$author = sanitize_text_field( $author );
    	wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $att_id, 'post_title' => $author ) );
    }
}

Hey, I know this is old, but if you want to use $_POST to update the description of the updated file, you can use the following code. $_POST[‘name’] corresponds to name=”name”?in the shortcode form, and ‘post_content’ is the description field (‘post_excerpt’ is the caption field). Hope that helps somebody!

add_action( 'fu_after_upload', 'my_fu_after_upload' );

function my_fu_after_upload( $attachment_ids ) {
    // do something with freshly uploaded files
    // This happens on POST request, so $_POST will also be available for you
    foreach( $attachment_ids as $att_id ) {
		// Format the title
    	$author = $_POST['name'];
    	$author .= ' ' . $_POST['email'];
		// Change the description
		$description = 'Upload by ' . $_POST['name'];
		$description .= ', ' . $_POST['email'];
		$description .= ' ' . $_POST['post_title'];
    	// Sanitize input from user
    	$author = sanitize_text_field( $author );
    	wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $att_id, 'post_title' => $author, 'post_content' => $description ) );
    }
}

Thanks Josh!