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Single page leveraging the file manager, file sets and attributes

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Greetings!

I am a new web dev learning the ropes of this awesome piece of software that is Concrete5.

I am going to try my hand at making a custom dashboard single_page that has a file manager and like two text fields, maybe these txt fields can be file attributes too

I need this instance of the file manager to auto add uploads to a pre-configured file-set and some file attributes.

What suggestions can a newbie get to accomplish this seemingly simple task?

Thanks in advance!
 
jmorales replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
Ah... I love it when I answer my own questions. I found this awesome resource on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_S8Qq6wSaw... Apparently from the code guru's that make Concrete5, so props & kudos to them.

That helped me with the controller code, and this helped me around the dashboard single_page:http://www.altinkonline.nl/tutorials/concrete5/make-a-concrete5-sin...

I found that both things could be easily combined, so I did.

I was able to answer my questions and get pretty useful sample code to boot! I'll keep watching those video training sessions for sure!
jmorales replied on at Permalink Reply
Ok. I can upload the file, assign it to a file set and it gets the attributes assigned to the fileset. How do I go about the task of adding a value to that attribute?

I only have the file upload field in my form, but I want to add a text field to fill the text attribute i got for this file set attribute.

So far, my attempts have yielded errors.

Here is my file upload controller function:
$pathToFile = $_FILES['fileUp']['tmp_name'];
$nameOfFile = $_FILES['fileUp']['name'];
$fObj = $this->fi->import($pathToFile, $nameOfFile);
if(is_object($fObj)){
 Loader::model('file_set');
 $fs = FileSet::createAndGetSet("Files",FileSet::TYPE_PUBLIC);
 $fs->addFileToSet($fObj);
//this bit i know its wrong - producing sql errors about fID not being set... no idea how to tackle it
// Loader::model('file_version');
// $fv = new FileVersion();
// $attribute = FileAttributeKey::getByHandle('file_id');
// $fv->setAttribute($attribute, $this->post('fileID'));
}
$this->redirect('/dashboard/spHome/single_page', 'successfully_uploaded');
jmorales replied on at Permalink Reply
[SOLVED]

What I did is that I replaced commented code in previous post with the following code:
if($fObj instanceof FileVersion){
$fv = $fObj;
$fID = $fv->getFileID();
$ak = "attrib_handle";
$value = $this->post("formFieldName");
$fv->setAttribute($ak,$value);
}


Also in the controller I added the file helper to the on_start method, I am not sure if that was required for the success of this little thing here, but since it is working I will stick to the golden rule of "if it ain't broken - don't fix it" and move on lol

This has been fun, documenting my questions here lol.