Frontend Uploadfield

Frontend UploadField for SilverStripe 4 with Dropzone.js. jQuery is also required to be included in your front end template.

Installation

composer require jamesbolitho/silverstripe-frontenduploadfield

Field Configuation

To use this field use:

use jamesbolitho\frontenduploadfield\UploadField;

Create your field as normal in your form:

$upload1 = UploadField::create('Images', 'Images');

Set upload folder:

$upload1->setFolderName("Uploads/my-upload-folder/");

Set allowed file types:

$upload1->getValidator()->setAllowedExtensions(array('jpg','jpeg','gif'));

Set allowed max file size:

$sizeMB = 1; // 1 MB
$size = $sizeMB * 1024 * 1024; // 1 MB in bytes
$upload1->getValidator()->setAllowedMaxFileSize($size);

Set to allow files to be removed from upload field:

$upload1->setRemoveFiles(true);

Please note that this also removes files from assets as well.

Set to allow multiple file upload:

$upload1->setIsMultiUpload(true);

Set allowed number of files to upload:

$upload1->setAllowedMaxFileNumber(5);

Set timeout for the XHR requests in milliseconds:

$upload1->setTimeout(30000);

ToDo's:

• Add ability to alter more Dropzone settings programmatically through silverstripe i.e. chunk sizing etc.
• Add more icons for non image files e.g. pdf, word etc.