Re: FileUpload behavior and multiple models

Don't wrap the DS with curly braces if you are going to use the
concatenation operator.
Just do 'uploadDir' => "img".DS."shirts"

On Sep 21, 9:05 pm, Wanna be baker <ray.crawf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Shirt which has many different images
> - shirt_image
> - thumb_on_image
> - thumb_off_image
> - price_banner_image
>
> The files get stored in separate places (or are supposed to be).  What
> I've found (using a model like what is show here:http://pastebin.com/gbnLpxN0)
> is that the value of uploadDir gets overwritten.  Net, the last
> declaration of it affects all of the other executions.  Couple this
> with the fact that I can't figure out how to get DS into the uploadDir
> declaration, has caused me some good sized headaches.
>
> At the moment, with the constructor call commented out and the .{DS}.
> in the actsAs, this blows up...  but it does work if I use  the
> constructor method; it's just that the files get stored in the wrong
> spots...
>
> The variable issue lead me to try using the constructor to affect that
> option.  However, even that has the same issues with the value being
> overridden.
>
> As a result, I have two questions...  One specific and one high level.
>
> Specific: how can I get this declaration of uploadDir set correctly so
> that different models can have different uploadDirs?
>
> High-level: How does this get instantiated (this plugin)?  Does it
> instantiate one instance of the behavior at run time or does it create
> one for each model?  If it's the latter, it's not working as I would
> expect.  Also, where's a good tutorial that would help me understand
> the OO nature and instantiation order in CakePHP?
>
> Thanks!

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