Description

multipart/form-data saving to disk made easy.

Requirements

• node.js -- v0.8.0 or newer
• busboy -- v0.2.9 or newer
• gridfs-stream -- v0.5.3 or newer
• streamifier -- v0.1.1 or newer
• mongodb -- v1.4.30 (haven't tested with ~2.0)

Install

npm install nodefu

Usage

var express = require('express')
var nodefu  = require('nodefu')

var app = express()
app.use(nodefu())

You can access the files in the request object and save them to disk like this:

req.files.fieldName.toFile(path,[filename],callback)

• fieldName: the name of the input field on your html
• path: string containing the save path
• filename: optional parameter string that specifies the name of the file ( if none is passed, the file name will be the same )
• callback: callback function with err and data attributes, respectively

And to save the uploaded files to mongodb, first you have to specify the mongodb path when using the middleware:

app.use(nodefu('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test'))

And now you can call this method from the request object:

req.files.fieldName.toMongo([filename],callback)

• fieldName: the name of the input field on your html
• filename: optional parameter string that specifies the name of the file ( if none is passed, the file name will be the same )
• callback: callback function with err and data attributes, respectively

You can also access data passed through multipart/form-data other than files using

req.fields.otherFieldName

HTML

<form id="uploadForm" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/actionRoute" method="post">
    <input type="file" name="fieldName"></input>
    <input type="text" name="otherFieldName"></input>
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload File"></input>
</form>

Angular

If you are using angular, I recommend using the ng-file-upload module. You can check it out on here.

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