You can have subfolder structure
Field('file','upload',uploadfolder='....')
any field can have its own uploadfolder which can me (but does not
need to be) a subfolder of uplaods/
On Jan 7, 4:59 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote:
> There is an issue with the uploads folder.
>
> Most filesystems will suffer a huge performance penaltiy if there are
>
> > 100 files in a single folder.
>
> So in an app that receives alot of uploads, having these all in one
> folder is really really bad for the servers performance (think flickr
> type site).
>
> How could web2py handle a subfolder structure, that put the files that
> were uploaded by date/time etc, something that keeps more than 100
> files in any given folder ?
>
> -Thadeus
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:53 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> > There are two subfolders: private and uploads
>
> > You should not mess up with uploads. Let SQLFORM put staff there and
> > download retrieve it. You can manually do it but ONLY if you use
>
> > db.table.insert(fieldname=db.table.fieldname.store
> > (stream,'filename'))
>
> > This is very special folder because there are a lot of security
> > implications in having users uploads data (directory traversal
> > attacks) and download data (authorizations). Let web2py deal with it
> > by the book. It is complicated. There is a lot of code in web2py just
> > to deal with this.
>
> > Files that public should go in static/.
>
> > Everything else should go in private but now you are on your own. You
> > decide file naming conventions but you are also responsible for
> > security holes.
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Jan 7, 4:36 pm, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote:
> >> How about with an <input type='textarea' name='xyz' /> which I then
> >> write to a file abc under uploads/folder1/folder2 and want to insert
> >> into the db.doc.filename, which is of type 'upload'?
>
> >> On Jan 7, 8:54 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> >> > If you have an <input type="file" name="xyz"/> represented as a
> >> > FieldStorage in request.vars.xyz you can do
>
> >> > db.doc.insert(filename=db.doc.filename.store
> >> > (request.vars.xyz.file,request.vars.xyz.filename))
>
> >> > On Jan 7, 1:37 am, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >> > > # model
> >> > > db.define_table('doc',
> >> > > Field('title','string'),
> >> > > Field('filename','upload')
> >> > > )
>
> >> > > #controller
> >> > > text_form=SQLFORM.factory(Field('text_in','text',db.doc))
> >> > > file_form=SQLFORM.factory(db.doc)
> >> > > ...
> >> > > if text_form.accepts(request.vars,formname='text_form'):
> >> > > #insert data into the doc table
> >> > > ...
> >> > > if file_form.accepts(request.vars,formname='file_form'):
> >> > > # etc
>
> >> > > The view has custom forms for both text_form and file_form.
>
> >> > > The question is ... how to properly insert data into the doc table in
> >> > > the case of the text_form? text_form.vars.text_in has the results of
> >> > > textarea form field. These data are easily stored in an uploads/
> >> > > file.txt file. The question is how to make the db.doc.filename field
> >> > > point to the uploads/file.txt file such that it will be consistent
> >> > > with a true file upload vs. a text field upload? Just inserting the
> >> > > name of the uploads/file.txt into the db.doc.filename field isn't the
> >> > > right way. (Hope this is clear enough.)- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> > - Show quoted text -
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