On 3 May 2005, at 15:08, Marian Briones wrote: > Hi - > > I have a tool where executive committees can upload their meeting > minutes to the site and have them listed.� What is the best way to: > > 1)� Prevent accidental overwriting with same file names?� (I have > thought adding something to the copied file name)? > > 2)� Only allow the person who uploaded the file to change the file, > i.e. if they accidently uploaded the wrong file to be able to upload a > new one. > > I think the answer is fairly straightforward, but I can't seem to > grasp it yet.
Lot's of suggestions already for this. I would do it like this... * When a USER account is created, create a folder for them on the server. * When they upload a doc it goes in their folder. * Rename the uploaded doc to DATE_filename.ext (DATE as YYYYmmdd) * If they upload more than 1 per day then append the filename : DATE_filename_2.ext * next to each file in the list you can have a button (delete) & (replace) that only show if they are logged in. Pretty easy to convert the filenames into a nice format on screen, & make the filename clickable to read/download. (replace) 2005 / 04 / 28 Finance Meeting [pdf] (delete) With the date prefix, you can restrict the listed docs to last 30 days or something so it doesn't become a huge list. Of course you can also provide a "show all" feature. Riquez [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
