Rename file on upload

Is there any way the uploaded file name can be captured and fed into a database?

I have 3 areas on the website which allows for a regular upload of a PDF and there is a link to the PDF on the website page. My thinking was that if the PDF could be renamed on upload, the link reference could remain the same. As this isn't possible with Perch, my other idea was to save the PDF name to a database table which could then be queried and fed dynamically into the link.

Hi Helen

You can just output the path to the uploaded document and then you don't need to change the filename:

<a href="<perch:content id="document_file" type="file" label="Upload document" bucket="documents">"><perch:content id="document_title" type="text" label="Document title"></a>

Hussein Al Hammad said:

Do you have a region on a page where an editor uploads a PDF and want to output a link to that PDF on another page?

Yes, that is exactly what I want to do.

If you have a region with the key My Region on the page /my-page.php:

perch_content('My Region');

You can output the same region on other pages with perch_content_custom() like so:

perch_content_custom('My Region', [
    'page' => '/my-page.php',
]);

You can also specify a different template if you need to display it differently on the other pages:

perch_content_custom('My Region', [
    'page' => '/my-page.php',
    'template' => 'template.html',
]);

That's brilliant. I'll have a go. Thank you so much!

Hussein Al Hammad said:

If you have a region with the key My Region on the page /my-page.php:

perch_content('My Region');

You can output the same region on other pages with perch_content_custom() like so:

perch_content_custom('My Region', [
  'page' => '/my-page.php',
]);

You can also specify a different template if you need to display it differently on the other pages:

perch_content_custom('My Region', [
  'page' => '/my-page.php',
  'template' => 'template.html',
]);

This worked a treat. Thank you Hussein