Questions tagged [files]
Use it to generally reference to those files used on websites which could be video, images, pdfs, etc.
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settings.php permission denied on Mac
During a project installation always fails to install correctly.
Let me clarify this is how it should work: Drupal changes the chmod of settings.php to 777 and then applies changes for the drupal ...
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How to resize an uploaded image?
In Drupal 8, I have a content type "Sketch" that displays an attached image in several ways, depending on the view mode. Some views resize it to 200x200px, some to 600x600px.
I am trying to ...
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file_exists(): Unable to find the wrapper "private" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? [closed]
I just installed a bare boned Drupal 10 locally. and Windows 10 with PHP 8.1.14
I set the private file path as follows:
$settings['file_private_path'] = $app_root . '/../private';
Its path shows ...
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Public Access to Private Files
I have a content type that allows one or more file attachments and these are set as Private so that access to them can be controlled. A small percentage of these files I also want to be publicly ...
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MSSQL - How to get a list of documents from a node that is using a space and a view?
I have a list of documents that are associated with a node of type space. The space has a page with a view and filter to list documents only related to that node.
I'm trying to query the database to ...
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Why should a Drupal copy be extracted in the web directory?
I am trying to create a multi-site using Set up a multisite, but I do not understand the reason for step 1.2.
Why should a Drupal copy be extracted in the web directory?
There doesn't seem to be ...
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GET /sites/default/files/js/js_xxxxxx.js - No such file or directory
This is my first post, I just started to learn and use Drupal, and I wish to install a fresh new site on my local Windows machine using composer. The issue is that it has a file not found error from ...
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Webform File Attachments Uploaded But Not Linked to Submission
I have Webform 6.1.5 running in a D9.5 website, that has lots of other contrib modules.
Using the Webform Attachments sub-module I have some simple forms that require files to be attached to the ...
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how to add the "alt" attribute to a "managed_file" type image field
I have a custom form in drupal 9 where I am creating a managed_file type field to upload an image:
$form['footer']['logo'] = array(
'#title' => 'Logo',
'#type' => 'managed_file',
'#...
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Why is this hook implementation not working? [duplicate]
I am new to custom modules and hooks and i am trying to connect to a sharepoint site i created to upload pictures of a content i have into sharepoint instead of drupal's file system. My issue is not ...
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Temporary file issue when creating a file from an external script
I would like to create a file and write some data to it using a PHP CLI script. The script will bootstrap Drupal and then use either the file_system or file.repository services to perform the task.
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How to output file upload date (of a file field) in a JSON-view?
I have rest_export view to generate json output of nodes.
I'm trying to output a the upload date of files in a multivalue filefield, but can't find a solution.
I tried to use the "rewrite results&...
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Deleting a File from Website [closed]
I host my municipality's website (lionsbay.ca) through Drupal. On this
website, residents can find council minutes and agendas. Upon request of a
resident, she would like her information removed from ...
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How to remove an uploaded file with JSON:API?
I have an image field on the User entity that saves to the private filesystem. The field is limited to one image.
I can POST an image file to the field using JSON:API in accordance with this change ...
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Running a hook after node save, or another way to get the file name attached to a node
We've a D9 site with a custom module which generates and saves CSS code. It takes the name of the file attached to a node, and generates CSS to set it as the node's background.
Initially, I tried ...
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Trouble upgrading 7.90 to 7.91 [duplicate]
I'm trying to keep a D7 site up to date, it's currently running 7.90. I tried to upgrade to 7.95, but I ran into trouble, and eventually figured out that it's the 7.90->7.91 transition that's ...
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How would I access the pdf generated by Webform's Attachment PDF in a custom Webform Handler?
I have created a custom Webform Handler that takes the files uploaded by the user on a Webform and uploads them to the third-party file management system Box via Box's API. I want to also upload the ...
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How to upload .webp to Image field?
https://www.drupal.org/project/imagewebp lets you upload a regular jpg/png which converts it into webp, but how to upload already a file that is in webp?
Adding it as one of allowed extensions in the ...
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Modern File Manager for upload and organize documents?
Being new to Drupal, I still struggle with its File-Management.
I have the following use-case:
Authenticated Users from group 'comitee' can upload files (jpg, png, pdf and docx) to the Server, rename ...
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fclose only creates file at script end when running drush command [closed]
I'm really struggling with Drupal php memory/file/cache management. I've tried a lot of different ways to avoid memory errors (php 8.1) when writing a multi-megabyte file out. My observation is even ...
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How can I modify/edit/change the media video controls?
I was wondering how could I modify the controls from a media video.
In my particular case, I want to remove the "Download" button from the controls, see:
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How can I send a multipart/post-data POST request via a resource controller?
By trying to create a custom REST API through a resource controller via a custom module in Drupal 9, I would like to be able to send my data from a multipart/form-data Content-Type in order to pass ...
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Allow users to upload heic images and auto-convert to jpg
It seems that heic images are increasingly popular way to store images (the default image format since ios 11, but browsers do not support them. Site visitors may attempt to upload an heic image from ...
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Storing PDF Subject Data in Media Entities
I have pdf documents that I need to create as entities on our website. The pdfs were created with metadata, such as title and subject, that we want to have available in Drupal.
I am trying to save the ...
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How do I insert migrated file info into a file field?
Successfully migrated public and private files to D9 system using core d7_file and d7_file_private migrations.
Now trying to migrate the file info into file fields (entity_reference_revisions:...
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How can I prevent renaming of files uploaded with JSON:API for a specific field/filename?
I created a Profile photo image field on the user entity. This is for a decoupled site where users upload files with JSON:API.
The file field is configured like this:
File directory: profile-pics/[...
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How do I retrieve the tokenised path for the Files Directory setting configured via the fields settings? [closed]
I'm using this code to retrieve a remote file, during the process of creating a new a media entity.
$url = 'https://example.com/example.jpg';
$image = system_retrieve_file($url, NULL, TRUE);
$...
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Redirect doesn't work for .pdf file
Is it possible to create a redirect for documents using the Redirect module? I can't seem to find a solid answer. Basically I'm just trying to create a redirect from https://www.example.com/default/...
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Clicking links to uploaded files shows bytecode
This issue just started occurring on our app. We allow users to upload files in our forms and we create links for those files like so;
$f = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('file')->load(...
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Form to upload and replace unmanaged file
I want to make a form where a user can upload a file that will be saved in a predefined path in the private filesystem, replacing whatever was there before.
E.g. the destination file path could be '...
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I am having trouble uploading an image in Gutenberg, can I upload it otherwise to the media library?
I am having trouble uploading an image in Gutenberg (there is "infinite loading", without error, when I try to upload and eventually no image gets uploaded to the media library).
Can I ...
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How can I access the file-link.html.twig template?
I'm trying to access the functionality of the file-link.html.twig template that comes with the classy theme so that I can have the file-type icons automatically appear next to the file links.
I've ...
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Can a template file write, copy, or rename files? [closed]
Can code put in a template file write, copy, rename files, or read files that aren't template files?
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Ajax validation of file upload in Commerce Product with product attributes
I am building a shop with Drupal Commerce right now. I have a product that uses an Order item type, which supports a file upload. The same product also has some product attributes that load the ...
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managed_file not initialised after form ajax
I'm having issues with a managed_form field not beeing initialised after it is introduced via a ajaxcallback in a custom checkout Pane:
/**
* Provides a custom message pane.
*
* @...
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How to prevent numbering (_0, _1) of file uploads? [duplicate]
Is there a way in Drupal 7 to prevent numbering (_0, _1) of file uploads with the same name?
How to tell Drupal to replace the previous file?
Maybe there is already a ready-made module?
Or does anyone ...
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Get the real filename of file entity
I'd like to get the real filename of a file entity.
My code is like this
$filenames = [];
foreach ($entity->$field->referencedEntities() as $image) {
// Filename.
$media = ...
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Multistep Ajax form with ManagedFile: current step array dissapears from $form upon file upload callback
I have a custom multi-step Ajax form. On the second step, I have defined a managed_file field where users can upload several attachments:
public function buildForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $...
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Custom #upload_validators not firing
I have the following code but the custom validator is not being fired when I add a file to the file field.
If the file isn't a csv then I get an error message but if I upload a csv then the second ...
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Theme suggestions file-video.html.twig
I have a block with the media field video bundle (drupal 9) and it renders the video through the file-video.html.twig. I have copied template to my custom theme from core. What do i need is to ...
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How upload a file\image via json api?
I'm trying to upload a file or image on a D9 site via json api. The test is namely to upload the user picture on the user entity.
I've been following the documentation or read questions about, but I ...
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Webform upload files issue
I have setup our site to allow files to be uploaded and attached to the submission of the webform. I have the private directory setup with the .htaccess file. That part seems to be ok because when I ...
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How do I debug Drupal\Component\PhpStorage\FileStorage::createDirectory()?
On my site, I am getting this warning.
Alert: User warning: mkdir(): Permission Denied in Drupal\Component\PhpStorage\FileStorage->createDirectory() (line 123 of core/lib/Drupal/Component/...
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Drush can't write to /tmp
Drush does not seem to be able to move files to the tmp folder on my local machine. Changing the tmp folder location to for instance "sites/default/files" works, but I would like to know why ...
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Key based access control for private files
I'm building a site that provides paid video content, for embedding in customer's own sites. I'm successfully controlling access to the nodes that contain the video content based on purchasable user ...
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Compress file with ArchiveInterface without file paths
I'm trying to create an archive of log files to be downloadable in a form making a custom module in Drupal 9.
In the form, the user can change the format of the archive, as per image:
Here below my ...
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Actual file permisions
With Drupal 8/9 I want to:
Have a private file folder
Upload files to it (ideally by whatever method but media type will do)
Allow only authenticated users (ideally set by role) to view the file (...
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Writing to the temporary directory randomly stops working [closed]
In one of the websites on production, when Drupal writes on the temporary directory, it randomly stops working with the following error, even though the permissions are set correctly, and there is ...
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Migration does not pick up files
Please forgive me for not going the canonical path with either Drush or Composer. I tried, but could not find documentation to get me started. I'm coming from a Debian installation of Drupal 7 that ...
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I cannot access PDF files uploaded in the private directory
PDF files uploaded to the private directory cannot be viewed and returns a 404 error.
This also happens to the user with the Administrator role.
Other file types can be viewed with no issue.
This ...
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