Hi,

I'm sure I'm being a bit dim here - lack of sleep - but I'm trying to build a very basic plugin, with a single controller/view in the backend, which allows a user to upload a file and then I need to read the file contents and process it.

The processing of files is easy peasy, but I'm having trouble with what should be simple; How do I create a controller index view, with a form that's not tied to a model? Using a field config file requires a modelClass attribute.

I'm sure it's something stupidly simple.

Cheers

Last updated 8 years ago

Another way to handle this could be to build a simple command line that would process the user file uploaded before in a specific folder . this is what im doing to perform and process all my data import.

Thanks for your reply.

That is an option that I hadn't thought of. However, I'm building the site for a client and need for them to be able to manually upload files via the CMS.

Ideally I would have an interface for them to use, as they don't have server access.

Last updated 8 years ago

will they have access to the OctoberCMS backend ? if so, they will be able to use the filemanager plugins, this is what im using for my client

Last updated 8 years ago

Yes, they have access to the OctoberCMS backend (Albeit limited).

Do you mean this plugin? http://octobercms.com/plugin/indikator-filemanager I'm not sure that does quite what I want. How are you utilising it? I'm literally just wanted a page with a single file upload; the user uploads a file and it does some server-side processing of the file (Reading the data and updating the DB), and then provides a success/error message to the user.

It's all quite simple stuff, I just can't see how to create a form in a backend controller that isn't tied to a model (Because I have no models).

Did you found the solution for this?