Question

I am uploading images using sfWidgetFormInputFile() to the folder MY_PROJECT/WEB/UPLOADS .How to download those files from that path. how to get the path for the uploads folder. And also when i upload a file the file name changes to somthing like this 1f3c6d9bf7b8ebda8b600576c55817c34715a8421.How can i upload with its orginal name? thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There is an easier way… put a generateFieldNameFilename() function into your model or form class (where FieldName is the camelized name of the field where you store the image).

// your form or model class
public function generateImageFilename(sfValidatedFile $file)
{
  return $file->getOriginalName();
}

// in your template ($model => model object)
<?php echo link_to($model->getImage(), '/uploads/'.$model->getImage(), array('target' => '_blank')); ?>
// to dispaly the image in the link
<?php echo link_to(image_tag('/uploads/'.$model->getImage()), '/uploads/'.$model->getImage(), array('target' => '_blank')); ?>

This will open your image in a new tab. If you would like to force download images in your uploads dir put a .htaccess file into it (headers module must be enabled sudo a2enmod headers):

SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.jpg$" requested_jpg=jpg
Header add Content-Disposition "attachment" env=requested_jpg

By the way symfony renames your uploaded files because filenames must be unique in a directory so if you want to keep the original name, the field where you store the filename should be unique and every model should have a separate subdirectory for its files.