File upload: force to overwrite with same filename

Hello there @wp_user1

Not sure that this is a good practice as file names can overlap between different users submitting the form.

Despite that, I pinged our developers if there’s any available filter/hook that we could use to revert that. We’ll keep you posted here as soon as we’ve got some more insights. Your patience is highly appreciated!

Thank you,
Dimitris

We are using this form just for internal uploads, so it is okay to overwrite files ??
Thanks!

Hi @wp_user1

Could you try this hook as a mu-plugin:
https://gist.github.com/patrickfreitasdev/68b3a63ec34f85b3e5bfdb5b896b8912
and please update the script and add:
wp_delete_file( $param[ 'path' ]. $_FILES[ 'upload-1' ][ 'name' ] );
just before this code
return $param;

We recommend testing this on the dev/staging version first before putting it on the live site.

Kind Regards,
Kris

Perfect that seems to work! Thanks!

Hello there @wp_user1

I was reviewing this topic and I wanted to mention that the given snippet above also does something else, not sure if you already noticed that but we missed communicating it with you and I’m sorry about that.

So the given code apart from overriding files with the same name also changes the Forminator upload directory to /uploads/form-ID/ for each different form (where “form-ID” is the actual form ID number).

I’ve already pinged our Second Level Support team to review the snippet and provide an alternative with file overriding but without changing the uploads dir.

Warm regards,
Dimitris

Hello again

The following snippet should do the trick, without changing any folders.

<?php
add_filter(
	'wp_unique_filename',
	function( $file_name, $ext, $dir, $cb, $alt, $no ) {
		if ( isset( $_POST[ 'action' ] ) && 'forminator_submit_form_custom-forms' === $_POST[ 'action' ] ) {
			if ( $no ) {
				$find          = '-' . $no . $ext;
				$original_name = str_replace( $find, $ext, $file_name );
				return $original_name;
			} else {
				return $file_name;
			}
		}

		return $file_name;
	},
	10,
	6
);

Thank you,
Dimitris