[TYPO3-english] Changing Default Upload Directory Location When clicking "Browse..."

[Sebastiaan de Jonge]

Hi Scott,

I don't think there is a very easy solution for this. As the default
workflow for TYPO3 would be this. Setting this to a user directory would
confuse the FE, since the path from which the images are loaded will be
dynamic. A (not so nice) option would be to disable the "browse" field and
force editors to upload their files inside the filelist, and select the
images from there. As far as I know you can also upload images from the
selector popup. It's a little more work for the editor but it gets you the
result you require.

Please not that the file will still be copied to uploads/pics/, so each file
will be on the file system twice.

Regards,
Sebastiaan


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Sebastiaan de Jonge

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Scotty C <superscotty19 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I have a shared installation of TYPO3 and need to make a modification to
> the
> upload functionality of TYPO3. In particular and as I'm sure you know, when
> a
> user wants to add an image to a standard text w/image content element, they
> have
> the option of clicking "Browse" for easy upload of a file on their PC. The
> problem for me is, the location they upload to is the general area
> /uploads/pics. On a shared server, that makes for a mess because there's
> virtually no way of knowing whose files belong to whom. So, I'd like to set
> the
> "Browse" button to work just like the standard filemount, whereby the user
> gets
> their own location in fileadmin and when they upload, the file goes to
> (example)
> fileadmin/user/storage.
>
> My question is, how do I implement this in the user's TS template? My TS
> coding
> abilities aren't that advanced. I know that it's part of the TCA array, and
> specially:
>
>  'uploadfolder' => 'uploads/pics'
>
> ... but I don't know what to put in the setup/contants field of the
> template.
>
> As always, thanks so much in advance,
> -Scott.
>
>
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