Uploaded Files

  • Files are in directory structure, currently storage/[Application_id]
  • Uploaded files are converted to PDF, Flash, and/or Images for use in various browsers.
  • What file types will be supported?
    • Images, PDFs, 
  • If we attempt to preserve filenames as uploaded we'll need to keep in mind at the very least OS illegal characters:
  • An alternative which avoids all of above:
    • Rename file to something we control and save original file to renamed file in DB.
      • optionally save original filename next inside renamed file with .txt extension so we can easily use grep and find on the file system vs having to also make a DB calls.
  • File conversion tools: