file upload rename problems

Hi just having odd behaviour with some coding:

I have 2 pages one is ADD new image and the second is UPDATE image.

but im have a blonde moment it seems as for some reason I cannot get my head around the logic and I have tried different variations... for example of one of the variations that goes wrong....when an image uploads when it renames it creates a duplicate file extension on the new file on the server ( image.jpg.jpg) or it appends the file like so (image.jpg_1)

could you give me a rund down of which options to select for renaming:
from the Dynamic Data panel in File Manipulation Upload wizard I have many options to chose from ie:
1. Upload Files (imagefile)
status code
error messafe
client file name
file extension
server file name
service simple file name
.....
2 updateleaderboard (this is my html form)
imagefile
>imagefile Field Name
>imagefile temp path
>imagefile simple file name
.....

I have attached the 2 files to show my current image upload code....

All I want is to make sure the new file that's being uploaded will append _1 _2 etc on the end of the file (not on the end of .jpg extension as its currently doing)

Chris

in the upload file behavior, the file name setting should be:
[FileName]

you are binding the file name setting to the file field in the form, this is causing the probelm, set that to "[FileName]" instead.

You are a life saver :) that's the one variation I hadn't tried lol I feel like such a fool I didn't think of that one :) Thanks Jason... Perfect
Chris

oh Jason one question concerning the use of [FileName] ....how would I perform lowercase and replacement string functions as on another site I build I used:

<?php echo strtolower(str_replace(" ", "-", (((isset($_FILES["fileField"])))? preg_replace('/.[^.]*$/', '', $_FILES["fileField"]["name"]) :""))); ?>

How would I incorporate strtolower and str_replace functions?

Chris

add the following code at line 1 of your page:

<?php 

if(isset($_FILES)) { 

    foreach($_FILES as $k => $v) { 

        $_FILES[$k]["name"] = strtolower(str_replace(array(" ","-","\\","'"), "", preg_replace('/.[^.]*$/', '', $_FILES[$k]["name"]))); 

    } 

} 

?>

if there are any files being uploaded, it will automatically parse each one to convert the file name using strtolower, str_replace and the preg_replace functions

Hi Jason, that piece of code works for adding new records. however if I have an image already on the server it does rename the file in the database and appends _1 however it doesn't include the .jpg extension and on the server where the file is save to it wont show as an image since the .jpg extension on the physical file on the server is missing. the .jpg extension will be fine if a new file is uploaded with a unique name..it just cuts it off if uploads same file name. any suggestions?

Chris

it wont be able to fix the existing bad file names.

you will either need to re upload those files, or manually change the file names on the server and in the database.

Hi Jason, you have lost me there...what bad file names you referring to? What I was saying is that is does change the filename but it chops of the file extension from the renaming process thus the new file has no file extension associated with it either on the server or the newly saved record in the database. so to recap it does change the filename but it loses the file extension. so is that what you were referring to?

Chris

I think you have lost me.
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Jason just a quick update..first thanks for the help the other night greatly appriciated...after you helped me I investigated why the original code I had worked on a previous website and not this current one....what I found was it was the function preg_replace that was making the code in the previous website working...hence why the following code was working inside the actual file upload behaviour using the fieldname of the file rather then [FileName]

<?php echo strtolower(str_replace(" ", "-", (((isset($_FILES["fileField"])))? preg_replace('/.[^.]*$/', '', $_FILES["fileField"]["name"]) :""))); ?>

Because the above code uses preg_replace what it was doing was manipulating the file extension (correcting it in my database) In other words it as a silly method I was using as the above code was basically ruining the filename but then correcting it by using the preg_replace....thats why when you helped me you had changed your code to not use preg_replace since it was removing the file extension :)

Chris