Hey folks. I'm new here, and this is my first post.
I'm trying to figure out a way to manage multiple file uploads. I have a
form that allows users to upload arbitrary numbers of files, which I then
need to process and save on the server. I have a javascript that allows this
arbitrary number of files: by clicking a link, you create a new form field
that adds a numeral to the end of the field name. The %ARGS hash looks like
this for a single file:
file => 273141
title => Back to
id => 7
number => 1
creation_date => 2007
A multiple upload %ARGS looks like this:
file => 273141
title => Back to
id => 7
number => 1
creation_date => 2007
file-2 => that'shot8
title-2 => Natural
id-2 => 6
number-2 => 2
creation_date-2 => 1985
file-3 => Introduction
title-3 => Stuff Like This
id-3 => 12
number-3 => 3
creation_date-3 => 1998
I created a loop that allows me to handle the %ARGS data:
my $i = 2;
while ( $i <= $ARGS{'numberfiles'} ) {
my %thash;
foreach my $key ( sort( keys %ARGS ) ) {
if ( $key =~ /creation_date-$i/ ) {
$thash{'creation_date'} = $ARGS{$key};
}
if ( $key =~ /title-$i/ ) {
$thash{'title'} = $ARGS{$key};
}
if ( $key =~ /number-$i/ ) {
$thash{'number'} = $ARGS{$key};
}
if ( $key =~ /rate-$i/ ) {
$thash{'rate'} = $ARGS{$key};
}
if ( $key =~ /type-$i/ ) {
$thash{'type'} = $ARGS{$key};
}
if ( $key =~ /id-$i/ ) {
$thash{'id'} = $ARGS{$key};
}
if ( $key =~ /file-$i/ ) {
$thash{'file'} = $ARGS{$key};
}
}
my $nfile = $api->newBean('file');
}
$nfile->save($api);
$i++;
}
But the problem is handling the actual files simultaneous with this file
information. I have been trying to construct some sort of loop to go through
each $r->upload->tempname object, but it seems like the only way to do that
is to make it an entirely separate loop. Which gets kludgier and kludgier,
because my object-oriented perl requires that I make a "mini hash" out of
every file uploaded--the %thash above. I know there has to be an elegant way
to do this: I just don't know it.
Is it possible to use the Apache::Request object instead of %ARGS
altogether? Could I handle the file data and the files together using $r
instead of taking the info from %ARGS here and trying to take the data from
$r there?
Has anyone been faced with this problem before? All comments and help,
insights and wisdom, would be greatly appreciated.
Amiri
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