Question

I’ve installed Miles Johnson’s Uploader plugin and set it up with one of my models and got it working perfectly. Very nice.

Then I went and set it up on another model with almost identical code [the only difference is the upload path] and it won’t work on the second model. When I submit the form the plugin doesn’t seem to notice; I get an SQL error from an attempt to insert the POST file array straight into the DB.

Here is the code. [Other than this the plugin is imported in the bootstrap]

public $actsAs = array( 
    'Uploader.Attachment' => array(
        'photo' => array(
            'name'      => 'formatFileName',    
            'uploadDir' => '/uploads/uses/img/',
            'dbColumn'  => 'photo',
            'maxNameLength' => 30,
            'overwrite' => true,
            'stopSave'  => true,
            'allowEmpty'    => false,
            'transforms' => array(
                array('method' => 'resize', 'width' => 240, 'dbColumn' => 'photo_thumb'))
        )
    ),
    'Uploader.FileValidation' => array(
        'fileName' => array(
            'extension' => array('gif', 'jpg', 'png', 'jpeg'),
            'required'  => true
        )
    )
    );

This is on the model that is not uploading and the only difference is the uploadDir.

Does the plugin only work on one model? Any clues? thnx :}

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Edit for extra clarity

Here is my view code:

echo $this->Form->create('Use', array('type' => 'file'));
echo $this->Form->input('Use.photo', array('type' => 'file'));
echo $this->Form->input('Use.desc', array('rows' => '3', 'label' => 'Description'));
echo $this->Form->end('Add to Gallery');

And here is my controller code:

public function add() { 
        if ($this->request->is('post')) {       
            $this->Use->set('user_id', $this->Auth->user('id'));        
            if ($this->Use->save($this->request->data)) {
                $this->Session->setFlash('Your Use has been saved.');
                $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
            } else {
                $this->Session->setFlash('Unable to add your Use.');
            }
        }
    }

Answer 1

After checking thru the code with Alessandro [thank you :)] I found the problem.

If you look in the View and Controller code you can see that the model is named ‘Use’. This was the problem, as Use is a loaded word in PHP and I shouldn’t have used it for a model name.

I renamed the model to Outcome and now the Uploader works perfectly.