Display a CCK Filefield or Imagefield Upload Widget on Your Own Custom Form

Extremely helpful!  I've been searching for days looking for this!

I have a quick question though.  I've created a module that is basically a front end friendly story node edit form.  I added a image field using CCK to the story content type.

Everything works great until submit and then nothing.  Here is my submit handler.

function story_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
    global $user;
    module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'node.pages');
    $node = array('type' => 'story');
    $story_form_state = array();
    $story_form_state['values']['name'] = $user->name;
    $story_form_state['values']['title'] = $form_state['values']['title'];
    $story_form_state['values']['field_story_name'][0]['value'] = $form_state['values']['name'];
    $story_form_state['values']['field_story_city'][0]['value'] = $form_state['values']['city'];
    $story_form_state['values']['body'] = $form_state['values']['body'];
    $story_form_state['values']['field_story_image'][0]['value'] = $form_state['values']['field_node_gallery_image'];
    $story_form_state['values']['op'] = t('Save');
    drupal_execute('story_node_form', $story_form_state, (object)$node);
}

Thank you for any help!

Thank you again for all your help.  Unfortunatly that didn't fix the problem. 

It actually seems like a validation issue.  If I remove the required setting from the field and submit the form without an image it works perfectly.

Am I referencing the submitted form elements correctly for the image field?

Hi:

I need to do something very similar...add a file upload field to my form.  I don't quite understand your code...can you please post your code for your content_fields and content_field_form functions?

My current problem is that I have a file upload field in my form, defined like so:

function mmil_upload_form ( $form_state )
{
       ....    

       $form['#attributes']['enctype'] = 'multipart/form-data';
       $form['file'] = array (
        '#type' => 'file',
        '#description' => 'We accept .zip, .gzip, .tgz, tar.gz and .bz2 files up to 2 MB.',
        '#required' => TRUE,
        '#title' => t ( 'Choose your file to upload' ) );

        $form['submit'] = array ( '#type' => 'submit', '#value' => 'Submit' );

        return ( $form );

}

But when I choose a file to upload and then then click on the submit button, I get an error saying that "Choose your file to upload field is required.", so it thinks the file is missing.  I don't understand why and what I can do to fix this problem.

Your help is appreciated.

Mona

I solved my problem...it turns out that I CANNOT use '#required' => TRUE when setting up the file field in the form!  That field will be empty for both validate and submit.  Instead I had to actually save the file in the submit function with file_save_upload() to valiidate it.  Here is my submit function excerpt:

function a_upload_form_submit ( $form, &$form_state )
{
    global $user;

    $limits = _upload_file_limits ( $user );
    $validators = array (
        'file_validate_extensions' => array ( $limits['extensions'] ),
    );
    $file = file_save_upload ( 'file', $validators, null, false );
    if ( $file == 0  )
    {
        form_set_error ( '', t ( 'Error: missing required upload file.' ) );
        return;
    }
    // save data code here

}

Hope this helps someone else.

cheers,

Mona

Thanks Justin.

I`m trying to create a CCK widget, based on FileField widget like that. Then I create new CCK widget for my content type. But I did not get this widget while creating a node.

<?php
// $Id:

/**
* Implementation of CCK's hook_widget_info().
*/
function filewidget_widget_info() {
  return array(
    'filewidget' => array(
      'label' => t('Filewidget'),
      'field types' => array('filefield'),
      'multiple values' => CONTENT_HANDLE_CORE,
      'callbacks' => array(
        'default value' => CONTENT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT,
      ),
    ),
  );
}

/**
* Implementation of CCK's hook_widget_settings().
*/
function filewidget_widget_settings($op, $widget) {
  switch ($op) {
    case 'form':
      return filewidget_widget_settings_form($widget);
    case 'validate':
      return filewidget_widget_settings_validate($widget);
    case 'save':
      return filewidget_widget_settings_save($widget);
  }
}

function filewidget_widget_settings_form($widget) {
  $form = module_invoke('filefield', 'widget_settings', 'form', $widget);

  if ($form['file_extensions']['#default_value'] == 'txt') {
    $form['file_extensions']['#default_value'] = '3gp avi flv mp4 mpg mpeg';
  }

  $form['text'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#title' => t('Text'),
    '#default_value' => !empty($widget['text']) ? $widget['text'] : '',
    '#size' => 15,
    '#maxlength' => 10,
    '#description' => t('Lorem ipsum dolorum set amen.'),
  );

  return $form;
}

function filewidget_widget_settings_validate($widget) {
}

function filewidget_widget_settings_save($widget) {
  $filefield_settings = module_invoke('filefield', 'widget_settings', 'save', $widget);
  return array_merge($filefield_settings, array('text'));
}

/**
* Implementation of CCK's hook_widget().
*
* Assign default properties to item and delegate to FileField.
*/
function filewidget_widget(&$form, &$form_state, $field, $items, $delta = 0) {
  $element = filefield_widget($form, $form_state, $field, $items, $delta);
  return $element;
}

/**
* Element #value_callback function.
*/
function filewidget_widget_value($element, $edit = FALSE) {
  $item = filefield_widget_value($element, $edit);

  return $item;
}

/**
* Element #process callback function.
*/
function filewidget_widget_process($element, $edit, &$form_state, $form) {
  $element = array();

  return $element;
}

/**
* Implementation of CCK's hook_default_value().
*/
function filewidget_default_value(&$form, &$form_state, $field, $delta) {
  return filefield_default_value($form, $form_state, $field, $delta);
}
?>

Hey Guys!

The post by Justin Ellison is very helpful, thank You for that.

I still have a problem. I need putting the imagefield upload widget inside a fieldset.

I figured that I need to add the content_field_form to my fieldset in order to get a desired result and this action places my widget in place.

But after the upload, instead of showing the uploaded image, all the widget disapears.

It looks like the AJAX can not find a correct object to return it's data.

If You have any idea of how to deal with that, please help!..

...another thing, there's a need for placing several image uploads, each in different fieldset.

The idea is to create a page where a user can fill some kind of registration form which contains photo.

So I need an uploader photo for the user's photo along with the photos of all his family members.

Each family member is separated by fieldset.

Thanks for your post. I'm trying to do something similar, and I have a couple of questions:

1: How can I load a given node's already uploaded images into the form?

2: The submit handler is using node_gallery_image_save. Is it possible to just save regularly through imagefield? How should my handler look in that case?

Regards,

Marcus

I updated CCK today and had the same problem as well. Spent all day yesterday uploading images to nodes, and now they are all gone! The files for images are still in the file folder, but the nodes don't seem to show them. however if I go into edit mode it still shows me thumbnail that something was uploaded.