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Best photo upload naming convention?

Thread began 10/26/2013 12:10 pm by Justin@AdventDesign | Last modified 11/05/2013 8:06 am by Justin@AdventDesign | 1486 views | 4 replies |

Justin@AdventDesign

Best photo upload naming convention?

I often have record insertion with a photo upload included. Typically, I've just been leaving the original file name intact, and in the update form, having replacement photos renamed by appending a number if duplicate. This has resulted in a lot of extra image files and a really messy collection of photos on the server.

I'd like to apply a more strict naming convention for the photos, and then replace rather than rename the photos with any updates.

The most obvious answer would be to use the unique record ID, but how do I do that since on the insert page, the ID# isn't generated until upload? I've seen another post that seems to speak to this, but I'm having trouble following how to go about it.

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weboholic

You can get the next possible ID if you ask the DB information_schema

SELECT
information_schema.`TABLES`.AUTO_INCREMENT
FROM
information_schema.`TABLES`
WHERE
information_schema.`TABLES`.TABLE_NAME = '{Your_Table_Name}'

but this is sensible in multiuser environments

or just

1. add a new (empty) record
2. upload the file and use the given back ID from the session varible
3. update the record

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Justin@AdventDesign

Sorry, but I come from the design side and know just enough PHP to be dangerous. Could you show how I might set a variable with that select statement ?

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weboholic

<?php require_once('Connections/db.php'); ?>
<?php
mysql_select_db($database_db, $db);
$query_rsGetNextID = "SELECT information_schema.`TABLES`.AUTO_INCREMENT FROM information_schema.`TABLES` WHERE information_schema.`TABLES`.TABLE_NAME = 'dbImages'";
$rsGetNextID = mysql_query($query_rsGetNextID, $db) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rsGetNextID = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsGetNextID);
$totalRows_rsGetNextID = mysql_num_rows($rsGetNextID);

// This is your next available ID for dbImages

$myNextID = $row_rsGetNextID['AUTO_INCREMENT'];

mysql_free_result($rsGetNextID);
?>

You have to replace dbImages (my table name) with your table name

As i said if this is a multi user environment you can not be sure that this is YOUR next ID.
Another user can insert a record and the next available ID change.

Better use Data Bridge to

1. Add a new record, Data bridge ask you for the session name for "Save Inserted ID in Session" - dbImagesInsertID for example
2. Insert file upload and use in file name my_file_name_<?php echo $_SESSION['dbImagesInsertID']; ?>
3. Update the record with imagename/filename/... using informations from the upload object in bindings panel

You can do this all in the same page.

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Justin@AdventDesign

Thanks weboholic. This is for a back-burner project so I haven't had a chance to dig in and try your solution, but I appreciate the help!

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