filese

Installation

$ npm install filese  

Usage

<form action="/profile" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <input type="file" name="avatar" />
</form>

var express = require('express')
var upfile  = require('filese')
var upload = upfile('public/uploads/')

var app = express()

app.post('/profile', upload.single('avatar'), function (req, res, next) {
  // req.file is the `avatar` file
  // req.body will hold the text fields, if there were any
})

app.post('/photos/upload', upload.array('photos', 12), function (req, res, next) {
  // req.files is array of `photos` files
  // req.body will contain the text fields, if there were any
})

var cpUpload = upload.fields([{ name: 'avatar', maxCount: 1 }, { name: 'gallery', maxCount: 8 }])
app.post('/cool-profile', cpUpload, function (req, res, next) {
  // req.files is an object (String -> Array) where fieldname is the key, and the value is array of files
  //
  // e.g.
  //  req.files['avatar'][0] -> File
  //  req.files['gallery'] -> Array
  //
  // req.body will contain the text fields, if there were any
})

API

File information

Each file contains the following information:

Key | Description | Note
--- | --- | --- fieldname | Field name specified in the form |
originalname | Name of the file on the user's computer |
encoding | Encoding type of the file |
mimetype | Mime type of the file |
size | Size of the file in bytes |
destination | The folder to which the file has been saved | DiskStorage
filename | The name of the file within the destination | DiskStorage
path | The full path to the uploaded file | DiskStorage
buffer | A Buffer of the entire file | MemoryStorage

delete file

	upload.deleteFile(paths,fn(data))