https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/renaming-file-uploads Gravity Support Forums Topic: Renaming File Uploads? en-US Fri, 08 May 2026 03:31:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/renaming-file-uploads#post-2324 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:31:57 +0000 Alex Cancado 2324@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>eventmedia,</p> <p>We don't have a hook specific for renaming the uploaded file, but with a little extra work, the post submission hook can do the trick.<br /> Following is the code snippet you will need. Place it in your theme's functions.php file.<br /> Also, you will need to replace the form id (line 6) and the field id's with the appropriate ones for your form (i.e. $entry[2] and $entry[1]). You can find the field id by inspecting your form's html and looking at the input name. It will be in the format name="input_ID" (i.e. name="input_2")</p> <pre><code>add_action(&quot;gform_post_submission&quot;, &quot;rename_file&quot;, 10, 2); function rename_file($entry, $form){ //ignore requests from forms other than ID 18 if($form[&quot;id&quot;] != 18) return; $upload_info = wp_upload_dir(); //original name/path $original_file_url = $entry[2]; $original_file_path = str_replace($upload_info[&quot;baseurl&quot;], $upload_info[&quot;basedir&quot;], $original_file_url); $original_file_info = pathinfo($original_file_url); //New File Name (without extension). //NOTE: Change this line to create the filename you would like to have $new_name = $entry[&quot;id&quot;] . &quot;_&quot; . $entry[1]; //adding same extension as original $new_name .= &quot;.&quot; . $original_file_info[&quot;extension&quot;]; $new_file_url = str_replace($original_file_info[&quot;basename&quot;], $new_name, $original_file_url); $new_file_path = str_replace($original_file_info[&quot;basename&quot;], $new_name, $original_file_path); //rename file $is_success = rename($original_file_path, $new_file_path); //if file was renamed successfully, updating entry so that it points to the new file if($is_success){ global $wpdb; $wpdb-&gt;update(RGFormsModel::get_lead_details_table_name(), array(&quot;value&quot; =&gt; $new_file_url), array(&quot;lead_id&quot; =&gt; $entry[&quot;id&quot;], &quot;value&quot; =&gt; $original_file_url)); } }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/renaming-file-uploads#post-2287 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:27:20 +0000 eventmedia 2287@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks Carl.</p> <p>Also noticed that uploading files that have apostrophes (') in them e.g mary's%20file.ext would break the link sent to admins in email to download form attachments, another incentive (for me anyway) to look at renaming files on upload.</p> <p>Looking forward to seeing if any outcome. Really liking the plugin, have implemented it in a WP-based recruitment site and using GF to handle online job applications, hence the renaming of file e.g. cv_refnumber_surname_firstname.extension. Makes for easy filing on the server side of things. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/renaming-file-uploads#post-2286 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:22:05 +0000 Carl Hancock 2286@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm going to talk to the team about this. I'm not sure if this is changeable using one of the API hooks, I don't believe it is. If it is not we may be able to add a hook that will allow you to have some control over this. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/renaming-file-uploads#post-2283 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:05:10 +0000 eventmedia 2283@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey folks,</p> <p>With file uploads, is it possible to rename the file during the upload process to include some of the form fields content?</p> <p>Say there's the name form field with FIRSTNAME and SURNAME and I'm uploading biography.doc.</p> <p>Is it possible to rename the file on upload to biography_SURNAME_FIRSTNAME.doc to try avoid having similar names. At present, if I upload two files called biography.doc it will go down the wordpress renaming route of adding a digit to the end of the filename so I wind up with biography.doc and biography1.doc. </p>