Upload script during checkout

Is there any way to add a feature to allow the customer to upload a file during their checkout?

For example, if my site is for an image modification service, the customer will select the service they want to purchase, check-out, and upload their original image during the checkout process or immediately after.

I know they can just "email it to me" after they pay for the service, but that is no good! I need the file to be uploaded as soon as they pay. Also, it would be great if the files could be associated with their account.

Is there any way to do this? Or would someone be interested in making this work?

Please please please help. Thanks!

Add a FILE attribute, and they can upload it when the add the service to their cart.
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=57

I read that page, and I went in to try it out. I think I'm missing something. Can you kinda do a step by step?

Where does the file go when they upload it?

The FILE Option Type for attributes is discussed on page 181 of the eStart Your Web Store With Zen Cart user's manual.

Simply choose FILE for the Option Type when setting up the attribute components, and the customer will see a box to enter the name of the file they wish to upload from their computer. It's not really much different from using a TEXT Option Type to allow input of words, or a DROPDOWN Option Type to allow selection from a few possible choices via a pulldown menu.

The files are uploaded to the /images/uploads folder on your server, whose permissions need to be set to Writable (ie: usually 777). The files will be renamed numerically, for the protection of your server and hosting account, so that people cannot upload rogue files and arbitrarily execute them.

Thank you for your help.

What if the file is of a different type? I keep getting this message:
"Error: File type not allowed. - jpg,jpeg,gif,png,eps,cdr,ai,pdf,tif,tiff,bmp,zip"

Also explained on page 181 of the eStart Your Web Store With Zen Cart user's manual, is the fact that you can set allowed file types in Admin->Configuration->Maximum Values->Allowed Filename Extensions for uploading

Thank you thank you thank you!

I got it all figured out, works great...

but the files that are uploaded to images/uploads are appearing as:
"images/uploads/1.jpg"
"images/uploads/2.jpg"
etc...

I need the file names to be the same as the ones the customer uploads so that I can match it to their order. This is very important.

onelove5683:

Also, it would be great if the files could be associated with their account.

DrByte,

I am so glad to have found this post.

So, is the uploaded image associated with an order? That would be great.

Is the uploaded-by-the-customer image stored in the database and is it retrievable from the order management page in admin?

Thank you,
P

papadopoulos:

So, is the uploaded image associated with an order? That would be great.

Is the uploaded-by-the-customer image stored in the database and is it retrievable from the order management page in admin?

Thank you,
P
Hi, I can answer that question for you.

The customer can have the ability to upload any type of file extension that you allow in admin/config/max values/"Allowed Filename Extensions for uploading"

When the image is uploaded to the server by the customer, it is stored in images/uploads and is ordered by numbers. For example: "1.jpg" "2.gif"

If you go to admin/customers/orders you can see the name of the file that the customer uploaded, but there doesn't seem to be any way to retrieve the file from admin, you would have to use FTP.

I was hoping that it would become numbered as well as keep the customers original filename when they are uploaded to the images/uploads directory. Fortunately enough, the number that is applied to the filename in the images/uploads folder matches the number applied to the filename in the Orders section of admin.

onelove,

Thank you very much,
P

I would also love it if the filename uploaded was like 5_name.jpg to preserve the customer's filename and make it easier to browse when you don't have the order form handy. Is there something in upload.php that can be changed to append the # but keep the name too?

-Shawn