I have a contact form that accepts a file input, I'd like to attach the file to the email that gets sent from the form.
Looking at the API reference isn't really helping, it states that the function expects a filepath with no clarification on anything beyond that.
The submit action will save a record of the into the database and this works correctly, something like:
$submission = MyDataObject::create();
$form->saveInto($submission);
$submission->write();
an Email object then gets created and sent. Both of these are functioning and working as expected.
Trying to attach the File I've tried:
$email->addAttachemnt($submission->MyFile()->Link());
which is the closest I can get to getting a filepath for the document. Dumping and pasting the resulting filepath being output by that call will download the form but that line throws an error and can't seem to locate the file.
I suspect that I'm misunderstanding what's supposed to be given to the function, clarification would be very much appreciated.
P.S. I don't currently have access to the code, I'm looking for some clarification on the function itself not an exact answer :).
In SilverStripe 4 the assets are abstracted away, so you can't guarantee that the file exists on your webserver. It generally will, but it could equally exist on a CDN somewhere for example.
When you handle files in SilverStripe 4 you should always use the contents of the file and whatever other metadata you have available, rather than relying on filesystem calls to load it.
This is how the silverstripe/userforms module attaches files to emails:
/** #var SilverStripe\Control\Email\Email $email */
$email->addAttachmentFromData(
$file->getString(), // stream of file contents
$file->getFilename(), // original filename
$file->getMimeType() // mime type
);
I would try $email->addAttachment($submission->MyFile()->Filename); If it doesn't work, you may need to prepend $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to the filename.
$email->addAttachment($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $submission->MyFile()->Filename);
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I am using a Wordpress plugin found here https://github.com/hirezstudios/smite-api-wp . Issue I have is the readme says I need to:
// call a method
global $smiteAPI;
$gods = $smiteAPI->getGods(1);
// do whatever with the god data...
I understand I need to implement it on one of my .php files or generate a new one. However, I am unsure what call a method means or how to make the above work. The getGods(1) will return a .json file of all gods in a game called Smite; 1 tells the API english.
I am working on Nginx server, with PHP-FPM. I installed Laravel 4.1 and bootstrap v3.1.1., and here is the problem. For the last 30 minutes, I have been trying to change a css rule that I first declared to check boostrap.
.jumbotron{
background: red;
}
The first time it worked. The jumbotron container was red. So, I removed that css value and started working, but still no matter which browse I use, the container is red. I even checked the css file through the Google Chromes inspection tool, and it is showing me that first value when jumbotron had a background:red. I deleted the css file and renamed it and add new styles, I configured chrome not to cache pages. But Still the same value. I'm convinced now, that Laravel has kept a cache of the first style declaration.
Is there any way to disable this at all?
General explanation
When you access a Laravel Blade view, it will generate it to a temporary file so it doesn't have to process the Blade syntax every time you access to a view. These files are stored in app/storage/view with a filename that is the MD5 hash of the file path.
Usually when you change a view, Laravel regenerate these files automatically at the next view access and everything goes on. This is done by comparing the modification times of the generated file and the view's source file through the filemtime() function. Probably in your case there was a problem and the temporary file wasn't regenerated. In this case, you have to delete these files, so they can be regenerated. It doesn't harm anything, because they are autogenerated from your views and can be regenerated anytime. They are only for cache purposes.
Normally, they should be refreshed automatically, but you can delete these files anytime if they get stuck and you have problems like these, but as I said these should be just rare exceptions.
Code break down
All the following codes are from laravel/framerok/src/Illuminate/View/. I added some extra comments to the originals.
Get view
Starting from Engines/CompilerEngine.php we have the main code we need to understand the mechanics.
public function get($path, array $data = array())
{
// Push the path to the stack of the last compiled templates.
$this->lastCompiled[] = $path;
// If this given view has expired, which means it has simply been edited since
// it was last compiled, we will re-compile the views so we can evaluate a
// fresh copy of the view. We'll pass the compiler the path of the view.
if ($this->compiler->isExpired($path))
{
$this->compiler->compile($path);
}
// Return the MD5 hash of the path concatenated
// to the app's view storage folder path.
$compiled = $this->compiler->getCompiledPath($path);
// Once we have the path to the compiled file, we will evaluate the paths with
// typical PHP just like any other templates. We also keep a stack of views
// which have been rendered for right exception messages to be generated.
$results = $this->evaluatePath($compiled, $data);
// Remove last compiled path.
array_pop($this->lastCompiled);
return $results;
}
Check if regeneration required
This will be done in Compilers/Compiler.php. This is an important function. Depending on the result it will be decided whether the view should be recompiled. If this returns false instead of true that can be a reason for views not being regenerated.
public function isExpired($path)
{
$compiled = $this->getCompiledPath($path);
// If the compiled file doesn't exist we will indicate that the view is expired
// so that it can be re-compiled. Else, we will verify the last modification
// of the views is less than the modification times of the compiled views.
if ( ! $this->cachePath || ! $this->files->exists($compiled))
{
return true;
}
$lastModified = $this->files->lastModified($path);
return $lastModified >= $this->files->lastModified($compiled);
}
Regenerate view
If the view is expired it will be regenerated. In Compilers\BladeCompiler.php we see that the compiler will loop through all Blade keywords and finally give back a string that contains the compiled PHP code. Then it will check if the view storage path is set and save the file there with a filename that is the MD5 hash of the view's filename.
public function compile($path)
{
$contents = $this->compileString($this->files->get($path));
if ( ! is_null($this->cachePath))
{
$this->files->put($this->getCompiledPath($path), $contents);
}
}
Evaluate
Finally in Engines/PhpEngine.php the view is evaluated. It imports the data passed to the view with extract() and include the file with the passed path in a try and catch all exceptions with handleViewException() that throws the exception again. There are some output buffering too.
Same issue here. I am using VirtualBox with Shared Folders pointing to my document root.
This pointed me in the right direction:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/26583609/1036602
Which led me to this:
http://www.danhart.co.uk/blog/vagrant-virtualbox-modified-files-not-updating-via-nginx-apache
and this:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24905
If you're mounting your local dev root via vboxsf Shared Folders, set EnableSendFile Off in your apache2.conf (or sendfile off if using Nginx).
For what it's worth and because this answer came up first in my google search...
I had the same problem. The CSS and JS files wouldn't update. Deleting the cache files didn't work. The timestamps were not the problem. The only way I could update them was to change the filename, load it directly to get the 404 error, and then change the name back to the original name.
In the end the problem was not related to Laravel or the browser cache at all. The problem was due to NginX using sendfile which doesn't work with remote file systems. In my case, I was using VirtualBox for the OS and the remote file system was vboxsf through Guest Additions.
I hope this saves someone else some time.
In Laravel 5.8+ you can use so:
The version method will automatically append a unique hash to the filenames of all compiled files, allowing for more convenient cache busting:
mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js').version();
After generating the versioned file, you won't know the exact file name. So, you should use Laravel's global mix function within your views to load the appropriately hashed asset. The mix function will automatically determine the current name of the hashed file:
<script src="{{ mix('/js/app.js') }}"></script>
full document: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/mix
Background: I downloaded a *.sql backup of my WordPress site's database, and replaced all instances of the old database table prefix with a new one (e.g. from the default wp_ to something like asdfghjkl_).
I've just learnt that WordPress uses serialized PHP strings in the database, and what I did will have messed with the integrity of the serialized string lengths.
The thing is, I deleted the backup file just before I learnt about this (as my website was still functioning fine), and installed a number of plugins since. So, there's no way I can revert back, and I therefore would like to know two things:
How can I fix this, if at all possible?
What kind of problems could this cause?
(This article states that, a WordPress blog for instance, could lose its settings and widgets. But this doesn't seem to have happened to me as all the settings for my blog are still intact. But I have no clue as to what could be broken on the inside, or what issues it'd pose in the future. Hence this question.)
Visit this page: http://unserialize.onlinephpfunctions.com/
On that page you should see this sample serialized string: a:1:{s:4:"Test";s:17:"unserialize here!";}. Take a piece of it-- s:4:"Test";. That means "string", 4 characters, then the actual string. I am pretty sure that what you did caused the numeric character count to be out of sync with the string. Play with the tool on the site mentioned above and you will see that you get an error if you change "Test" to "Tes", for example.
What you need to do is get those character counts to match your new string. If you haven't corrupted any of the other encoding-- removed a colon or something-- that should fix the problem.
I came to this same problem after trying to change the domain from localhost to the real URL. After some searching I found the answer in Wordpress documentation:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
I will quote what is written there:
To avoid that serialization issue, you have three options:
Use the Better Search Replace or Velvet Blues Update URLs plugins if you can > access your Dashboard.
Use WP-CLI's search-replace if your hosting provider (or you) have installed WP-CLI.
Run a search and replace query manually on your database. Note: Only perform a search and replace on the wp_posts table.
I ended up using WP-CLI which is able to replace things in the database without breaking serialization: http://wp-cli.org/commands/search-replace/
I know this is an old question, but better late than never, I suppose. I ran into this problem recently, after inheriting a database that had had a find/replace executed on serialized data. After many hours of researching, I discovered that this was because the string counts were off. Unfortunately, there was so much data with lots of escaping and newlines and I didn't know how to count in some cases and I had so much data that I needed something automated.
Along the way, I stumbled across this question and Benubird's post helped put me on the right path. His example code did not work in production use on complex data, containing numerous special characters and HTML, with very deep levels of nesting, and it did not properly handle certain escaped characters and encoding. So I modified it a bit and spent countless hours working through additional bugs to get my version to "fix" the serialized data.
// do some DB query here
while($res = db_fetch($qry)){
$str = $res->data;
$sCount=1; // don't try to count manually, which can be inaccurate; let serialize do its thing
$newstring = unserialize($str);
if(!$newstring) {
preg_match_all('/s:([0-9]+):"(.*?)"(?=;)/su',$str,$m);
# preg_match_all("/s:([0-9]+):(\"[^\"\\\\]*(?:\\\\.[^\"\\\\]*)*\")(?=;)/u",$str,$m); // alternate: almost works but leave quotes in $m[2] output
# print_r($m); exit;
foreach($m[1] as $k => $len) {
/*** Possibly specific to my case: Spyropress Builder in WordPress ***/
$m_clean = str_replace('\"','"',$m[2][$k]); // convert escaped double quotes so that HTML will render properly
// if newline is present, it will output directly in the HTML
// nl2br won't work here (must find literally; not with double quotes!)
$m_clean = str_replace('\n', '<br />', $m_clean);
$m_clean = nl2br($m_clean); // but we DO need to convert actual newlines also
/*********************************************************************/
if($sCount){
$m_new = $m[0][$k].';'; // we must account for the missing semi-colon not captured in regex!
// NOTE: If we don't flush the buffers, things like <img src="http://whatever" can be replaced with <img src="//whatever" and break the serialize count!!!
ob_end_flush(); // not sure why this is necessary but cost me 5 hours!!
$m_ser = serialize($m_clean);
if($m_new != $m_ser) {
print "Replacing: $m_new\n";
print "With: $m_ser\n";
$str = str_replace($m_new, $m_ser, $str);
}
}
else{
$m_len = (strlen($m[2][$k]) - substr_count($m[2][$k],'\n'));
if($len != $m_len) {
$newstr='s:'.$m_len.':"'.$m[2][$k].'"';
echo "Replacing: {$m[0][$k]}\n";
echo "With: $newstr\n\n";
$str = str_replace($m_new, $newstr, $str);
}
}
}
print_r($str); // this is your FIXED serialized data!! Yay!
}
}
A little geeky explanation on my changes:
I found that trying to count with Benubird's code as a base was too inaccurate for large datasets, so I ended up just using serialize to be sure the count was accurate.
I avoided the try/catch because, in my case, the try would succeed but just returned an empty string. So, I check for empty data instead.
I tried numerous regex's but only a mod on Benubird's would accurately handle all cases. Specifically, I had to modify the part that checked for the ";" because it would match on CSS like "width:100%; height:25px;" and broke the output. So, I used a positive lookahead to only match when the ";" was outside of the set of double quotes.
My case had lots of newlines, HTML, and escaped double quotes, so I had to add a block to clean that up.
There were a couple of weird situations where data would be replaced incorrectly by the regex and then the serialize would count it incorrectly as well. I found NOTHING on any sites to help with this and finally thought it might be related to caching or something like that and tried flushing the output buffer (ob_end_flush()), which worked, thank goodness!
Hope this helps someone... Took me almost 20 hours including the research and dealing with weird issues! :)
This script (https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/) can help to update an sql database with proper URLs everywhere, without encountering serialized data issues, because it will update the "characters count" that could throw your URLs out of sync whenever serialized data occurs.
The steps would be:
if you already have imported a messed up database (widgets not
working, theme options not there, etc), just drop that database
using PhpMyAdmin. That is, remove everything on it. Then export and
have at hand an un-edited dump of the old database.
Now you have to import the (un-edited) old database into the
newly created one. You can do this via an import, or copying over
the db from PhpMyAdmin. Notice that so far, we haven't done any
search and replace yet; we just have an old database content and
structure into a new database with its own user and password. Your site will be probably unaccessible at this point.
Make sure you have your WordPress files freshly uploaded to the
proper folder on the server, and edit your wp-config.php to make it
connect with the new database.
Upload the script into a "secret" folder - just for security
reasons - at the same level than wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes. Do not forget to remove it all once the search and
replace have taken place, because you risk to offer your DB details
open to the whole internet.
Now point your browser to the secret folder, and use the script's fine
interface. It is very self-explanatory. Once used, we proceed to
completely remove it from the server.
This should have your database properly updated, without any serialized data issues around: the new URL will be set everywhere, and serialized data characters counts will be accordingly updated.
Widgets will be passed over, and theme settings as well - two of the typical places that use serialized data in WordPress.
Done and tested solution!
If the error is due to the length of the strings being incorrect (something I have seen frequently), then you should be able to adapt this script to fix it:
foreach($strings as $key => $str)
{
try {
unserialize($str);
} catch(exception $e) {
preg_match_all('#s:([0-9]+):"([^;]+)"#',$str,$m);
foreach($m[1] as $k => $len) {
if($len != strlen($m[2][$k])) {
$newstr='s:'.strlen($m[2][$k]).':"'.$m[2][$k].'"';
echo "len mismatch: {$m[0][$k]}\n";
echo "should be: $newstr\n\n";
$strings[$key] = str_replace($m[0][$k], $newstr, $str);
}
}
}
}
I personally don't like working in PHP, or placing my DB credentials in an public file. I created a ruby script to fix serializations that you can run locally:
https://github.com/wsizoo/wordpress-fix-serialization
Context Edit:
I approached fixing serialization by first identifying serialization via regex, and then recalculating the byte size of the contained data string.
$content_to_fix.gsub!(/s:([0-9]+):\"((.|\n)*?)\";/) {"s:#{$2.bytesize}:\"#{$2}\";"}
I then update the specified data via an escaped sql update query.
escaped_fix_content = client.escape($fixed_content)
query = client.query("UPDATE #{$table} SET #{$column} = '#{escaped_fix_content}' WHERE #{$column_identifier} LIKE '#{$column_identifier_value}'")
A bit of a followup from a previous question.
As I mentioned in that question, my overall goal is to call a Ruby script after ImageCache does its magic with generating thumbnails and whatnot.
Sebi's suggestion from this question involved using hook_nodeapi.
Sadly, my Drupal knowledge of creating modules and/or hacking into existing modules is pretty limited.
So, for this question:
Should I create my own module or attempt to modify the ImageCache module?
How do I go about getting the generated thumbnail path (from ImageCache) to pass into my Ruby script?
edit
I found this question searching through SO...
Is it possible to do something similar in the _imagecache_cache function that would do what I want?
ie
function _imagecache_cache($presetname, $path) {
...
...
// check if deriv exists... (file was created between apaches request handler and reaching this code)
// otherwise try to create the derivative.
if (file_exists($dst) || imagecache_build_derivative($preset['actions'], $src, $dst)) {
imagecache_transfer($dst);
// call ruby script here
call('MY RUBY SCRIPT');
}
Don't hack into imagecache, remember every time you hack core/contrib modules god kills a kitten ;)
You should create a module that invokes hook_nodeapi, look at the api documentation to find the correct entry point for your script, nodeapi works on various different levels of the node process so you have to pick the correct one for you (it should become clear when you check the link out) http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_nodeapi
You won't be able to call the function you've shown because it is private so you'll have to find another route.
You could try and build the path up manually, you should be able to pull out the filename of the uploaded file and then append it to the directory structure, ugly but it should work. e.g.
If the uploaded file is called test123.jpg then it should be in /files/imagecache/thumbnails/test123/jpg (or something similar).
Hope it helps.
I'm in the progress of creating a bulk upload function for a Drupal site. Using flash I'm able to upload the files to a specific url that then handles the files. What I want to do, is not just to upload the files, but create a node of a specific type with the file saved to a filefield that has been setup with CCK. Since these are audio files, it's important that filefield handles the files, so addition meta data can be provided with the getid3 module.
Now I've looked through some of the code as I wasn't able to find an API documentation, but it's not clear at all how I should handle this. Ideally I could just pass the file to a function and just use the data returned when saving the node, but I haven't been able to find that function.
If any one has experience with this I would apreciate some pointers on how to approach this matter.
I had to do something similar some weeks ago and ended up adapting some functionality from the Remote File module, especially the remote_file_cck_attach_file() function. It uses the field_file_save_file() function from the filefield module, which might be the function you're looking for.
In my case, the files are fetched from several remote locations and stored temporarily using file_save_data(). Attaching them to a CCK filefield happens on hook_nodeapi() presave, using the following:
public static function attachAsCCKField(&$node, $filepath, $fieldname, $index=0) {
// Grab the filefield definition
$field = content_fields($fieldname, $node->type);
$validators = array_merge(filefield_widget_upload_validators($field), imagefield_widget_upload_validators($field));
$fieldFileDirectory = filefield_widget_file_path($field);
// This path does not necessarily exist already, so make sure it is available
self::verifyPath($fieldFileDirectory);
$file = field_file_save_file($filepath, $validators, $fieldFileDirectory);
// Is the CCK field array already available in the node object?
if (!is_array($node->$fieldname)) {
// No, add a stub
$node->$fieldname=array();
}
$node->{$fieldname}[$index] = $file;
}
$filepath is the path to the file that should be attached, $fieldname is the internal name of the filefield instance to use within the node and $index would be the 0 based index of the attached file in case of multiple field entries.
The function ended up within a utility class, hence the class syntax for the verifyPath() call. The call just ensures that the target directory is available:
public static function verifyPath($path) {
if (!file_check_directory($path, FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY)) {
throw new RuntimeException('The path "' . $path . '" is not valid (not creatable, not writeable?).');
}
}
That did it for me - everything else happens on node saving automatically.
I have not used the getid3 module yet, so I have no idea if it would play along with this way of doing it. Also, I had no need to add additional information/attributes to the filefield, so maybe you'd have to put some more information into the field array than just the file returned by field_file_save_file(). Anyways, hope this helps and good luck.
I have done something whith imagefield which worked, I think the structure has to be right otherwise it won't work. It took a lot of trial and error. This is is what I populated the imagefield with.
$image['data'] =array(
'title' => $media_reference_attributes->getNamedItem("source")->value,
'description' => $description,
'alt' => "",);
$image['width'] = $width;
$image['height'] = $height;
$image['mimetype'] = $mime_type
$image['uid'] = 1;
$image['status'] = 1;
$image['fid'] = $fid;
$image['filesize'] = $file->filesize;
$image['nid'] = $id;
$image['filename'] = $url;
$image['timestamp'] = $file->timestamp;
$image['filepath'] = $file_path;
Hope this is of some help.
You might want to look at Image FUpload if you need a look at integrating the flash upload.
To push the files on to another server while still handling them through Drupal sounds a little like the CDN space, maybe look at the behavior in the CDN or CDN2 projects?
If you find a clear solution please come back and post it!