Webform, creating customized directories for uploaded files

Question

Newbie and my first question on here. I'm still learning Drupal. So apologies if I missed anything

Here is my issue I am using Webform to create an upload page. The user enters an ID(text field) and uploads the file. The file gets uploaded to a private section on the server. Now I am trying to make sure that the file gets uploaded into this separate folder(named after the ID)( say all/private/ID/). Can I do that using a Webform ? For now, all I can use are basic tokens,not values I can grab from other fields(ex: %username) to create these directories.

If webforms are not the answer, what else would be a good method to go about it ?

Answer 1

Greetings welcome to the land of Drupal stuff :)

In general here are some tips:

• creating a folder off of a textfield ID is going to be cumbersome. How will you know subsequent users aren't putting in the same ID and or overwriting eachothers files?
• Webform has an API of available hooks. For instance look at webform_submission_presave() which allows you to change/capture a users submitted answer and alter it; you could likely alter the destination of the file to be saved, and assure the destination directory exists with a Drupal API function file_prepare_directory.

If you're looking for an all-in-one no code solution. Look at this issue queue PATCH for webform that looks like it supports custom tokens for upload files.