[Plugin: WordPress Form Manager] 0 kb attachment bug

Yes, thats a bug. It will be fixed in the next update. As for your questions, there isnt a way to do either of those things yet, but those are good ideas. I will see what I can do.

Version 1.5.0 fixes the bug.

About 2nd question, do you mean the data table along with the edit / delete options, or just the table style format for data?

Thanks for the fix! now the name of the attachment works (even if I don’t understand why now the form send the mail 6 times, but maybe there’s a problem in my settings)

I was wondering:

1) would be possible to find a way to make that attachment downloadable/click-able from the email/post?

2) would be very handy to be able to post in a page/post, for registered users, the same view (maybe without IP), the table view you have in “Edit Form-> Data” , and then making the title click-able, so that would sends you to the posted version that has been created already for each send.

for the 2) I think would be handy put the link of the table into an iframe inside a page so that it will be automatically updated when somebody send something, just an idea btw

edit: it still sends the form multiple times, first try, 6 times, next try, 11 times,third try 11 times.. (so 11 emails + 11 posts +11 fields in the Data table) have you checked that?

after I pressed Reset Templates everything is back to normal, I mean, now I send 1 email/post at time, so was my config problem. sorry

That is a very strange problem, about the multiple e-mails and posts. I’m glad you were able to fix the problem, but I’m curious as to what caused it specifically. Had you modified the default templates at all?

the only problem I noticed is when I tried to update the plugin, first of all said that I didn’t have the original files anymore, so it somehow self-uninstalled from wp installation, then I installed over it the new one, and had the multiple email problems, and then, I did a reset of the template and all went to normal.. dunno maybe some files got corrupted in the process.

Anyway, I remind you the other two questions

1) would be possible to find a way to make that attachment downloadable/click-able from the email/post?

2) would be very handy to be able to post in a page/post, for registered users, the same view (maybe without IP), the table view you have in “Edit Form-> Data” , and then making the title click-able, so that would sends you to the posted version that has been created already for each send. (I think would be handy put the link of the table into an iframe inside a page so that it will be automatically updated when somebody send something, just an idea btw )

the 1st is the most important btw, cause it’s pointless to have in email/post a strin saying “filename.jpg” but you can’t click it to retrieve it, and for that you can just go to the admin dashboard and click on the DATA to retrive the uploaded file.

apart from that, thanks very very much for your fast replies, I’m using your plugin for a website project I’m doing for a thesis, so it’r really important your help ??

First let me explain an important technical point: when WP updates a plugin, it first removes the entire directory, then copies the new files into it. Everything from the previous version is deleted when you update. So unless you do something special, your files are lost. This is normal behavior, except, I have coded my plugin to take a snapshot of the /templates directory, so that in the event of an update, it remembers which files were there to begin with. It will also replace any files you delete manually, which is why you have to remove them from the plugin admin. Basically, keeping the template files across updates is something my plugin does as a feature, it is not the normal behavior. That being said, it is a bit of a hack, and I’m not positive it works in all cases, just all the cases I’ve tried. The ‘reset templates’ is more of a panic button, for exactly this reason.

Which brings me to your idea about the download link. The problem when designing the upload system in the first place was that keeping the files in a directory would be just fine, until you updated the plugin, at which point you would lose all of your files. I thought about doing the snapshot method like for the /templates directory, but this would literally double the amount of HDD space required, since the files would be present both on disk and in the database. So ultimately I just put the files in the database. Which means that to download an uploaded file, I have to create it on the spot. This works fine in the backend, because I can be certain the time between file creation and access is limited, and I can be safe in clearing the temporary files whenever an admin logs in. In order to create a download link in an e-mail, I would have to make the files persist for much longer, which means I have to schedule an event for your server to do later, and I also have to put the file somewhere where your WP install will let the public access it, as in, from a link in an e-mail. I’m not certain how to do this just yet, but its an interesting problem and I’ll figure something out. But only because its for a thesis!

Also thank you for clarifying your second idea. I think its a great one and I’ve put it on the list of things to implement.

I just posted 1.5.2. I add an option to specify an upload directory for the ‘file’ element, and a URL pointing to that directory, if you want to have links to the files.

wow that was fast, thanks man!
I was trying it, but there’s a thing I don’t understand, let’s say that I want to save the files into this folder “https://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/files/” and I put this in Upload URL field, and all is ok, I get redirected there, but I don’t understand what should I put in UploadDirectory? I need an example of the path I should put there, cause right now it’s not saving, and so I get “file not found”.
Lemme know and thanks!

A URL is the address that your web browser sends to the server. A directory is part of the server’s filesystem, where one of the directories corresponds to the site’s base URL. I would look up the difference elsewhere if thats confusing…

If you have https://www.something.com/uploads for your uploads, put that as the URL and put %doc_root%/uploads for the directory. The %doc_root% thing is a shortcut I added so you don’t have to know the dirctory structure of your server. Hope that helps.

perfect, now it’s working, thank you so much!

For 1.5.10 I added a ‘table’ display. Its not equivalent to the data page in the admin, and it does not auto-refresh, but it does give links to the posts / file uploads if they exist. If you use the ‘formdata’ shortcode and add ‘table’ as an argument, as in :

[formdata (slug) table]

This will display the data as a table. The same arguments for formdata apply, like how many per page, what to sort the table by, etc.