About file naming

[stratboy]

Hi, first of all, if Rahul is listening, I would really like to thank him for this code, which is fabulous.

Then, I'm quite new to these kind of jobs and to Laravel too. I was just wandering: what's the reason why uploaded files have a changed encrypted name? What security (I guess) dangers does this solve? Why can't I leave the original file name?

Also, say I'm fine with how the files are renamed in temp directory. How can I move them to the public directory keeping their new name? In your example files are re-renamed a second time before moving. I don't feel this need right know, since then I should implement some checks about not naming them like some other image already uploaded, for not to overriding it. How can I get the name used in temp?

[rahulhaque]

Hi @stratboy, welcome here.

I was just wandering: what's the reason why uploaded files have a changed encrypted name? What security (I guess) dangers does this solve? Why can't I leave the original file name?

It prevents exposing the filepond model id used internally so that another user can't access someone else's file by guessing the id.

How can I get the name used in temp?

You can get the actual name from getFile() and getModel() methods here. Dump the output you get from these two methods to have a better understanding.

[stratboy]

Ok, thank you!