Uploading images using Easy File Uploader
The Image Uploader for the Events subsystem uses Easy File Uploader.
Currently, if we assume that the users camera named the file “ABCD.JPG”, the uploader will save this to a folder named after the USERNAME, which is concise, but not very friendly.
It wold be better if the folder was based on the “FULL NAME” of the user (“John Smith”, rather than “JSMITH03”), then this string will be used by the workflow to publish the photo, with timestamps embedded into the folder name.
I think this change will be quite simple to make to teh EFU software. EVU appears to use a number code in it’s “<select>” to indicate the option chosen.
1) change teh XML, so that it will allow “FULL NAME” to be selected as the upload folder. This should simply be a matter of adding options,
2) Change the helper.php to accept the new option value.
3) Figure out how to get the user’s fullname (probably something like $user->fullname), and use this instead of $user->username
4) Re-zip
5) Re-upload
6) Re-test
As the admin facilities use whatever folders they find, this change shoudl not affect anything else, but will require files to be reloaded, so better to do this change before releasing it into teh wild.