[Deprecated] DMZ 1.6.2 (DataMapper OverZealous Edition)

[eluser]Michael Ditto[/eluser]
[quote author="Michael Ditto" date="1259708989"]I am really enjoying the DMZ library thus far. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's really worth it.

There's a pretty solid library in CI already for dealing with file uploads, but it's not clear to me if it's possible to use it with DMZ's built-in form generation and handling, which I'd like to use to handle all the metadata associated with an uploaded file.

Would I call the do_upload method as a validation function? If anybody could provide an example of how it might be used or comment on if it's possible or advisable, that would be great.[/quote]

To answer my own question, or at least put it out of its misery, there's not as much brilliance in the CI file upload class as it seemed, at least for my purposes. I just used PHP's built-in functionality to handle that part.



As a (tangentially related) side note, this is my first foray into file uploading in a web application, and it's a user interface nightmare. In the world of desktop applications from which I come, we spend all kinds of effort customizing and hooking into OS file open dialogs to make them do wondrous things like display metadata about our files to the user to help them make an informed decision about what to open. In the web world I can't even tell the browser's file open dialog to filter by file type. I know there are some Flash options, but really... why should that be necessary? </rant>