https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Removing the extra characters appended to an uploaded file on download en Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:56:53 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/removing-the-extra-characters-appended-to-an-uploaded-file-on-download#post-10173 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:44:33 +0000 yuniar 10173@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Those tokens can't be removed completely, but it can be reduced.<br /> From this one:</p> <p>'element_3_36f8156c09d5133251dd578e252a1441-2-freedom from.mp3'</p> <p>to became this one:<br /> 'element_3_-2-freedom from.mp3'</p> <p>The reason for that code is to associate your file with the correct form submission and prevent duplicate file overwrite.</p> <p>If we remove the code completely, people uploading the file using the same file name would overwrite the old file. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/removing-the-extra-characters-appended-to-an-uploaded-file-on-download#post-10164 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:22:43 +0000 justinseipel 10164@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Any way we can have these just not added at all to the file? I'd like to just download all of the files directly form the "files" directory via <a href="http://FTP." rel="nofollow">FTP.</a> </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/removing-the-extra-characters-appended-to-an-uploaded-file-on-download#post-7530 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:47:52 +0000 neilo 7530@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Wow - that is so brilliant - and quick. Many thanks. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/removing-the-extra-characters-appended-to-an-uploaded-file-on-download#post-7526 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:16:33 +0000 yuniar 7526@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>That random hash code is there for security reason.<br /> To download it, your download script need to strip it.</p> <p>Try to edit your download.php file, search around line 166:</p> <pre><code>header(&quot;Pragma: public&quot;);</code></pre> <p>above that line, add this code:</p> <pre><code>$filename_only = $asfname; $file_1 = substr($filename_only,strpos($filename_only,&#39;-&#39;)+1); $filename_only = substr($file_1,strpos($file_1,&#39;-&#39;)+1); $header_file = (strstr($_SERVER[&#39;HTTP_USER_AGENT&#39;], &#39;MSIE&#39;)) ? preg_replace(&#39;/\./&#39;, &#39;%2e&#39;, $filename_only, substr_count($filename_only, &#39;.&#39;) - 1) : $filename_only; $asfname = $header_file;</code></pre> <p>that should strip the hash code. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/removing-the-extra-characters-appended-to-an-uploaded-file-on-download#post-7512 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:11:41 +0000 neilo 7512@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Dear Appnitro people,</p> <p>When a the form is used to upload a file, it appends a string of (what appears to be) random characters to the file name. For instance, the file </p> <p><em>'freedom from.mp3'</em></p> <p>gets renamed </p> <p><em>'element_3_36f8156c09d5133251dd578e252a1441-2-freedom from.mp3'</em></p> <p>in the machform/data/form_x/files folder and in the database.</p> <p>This means that when I create a download link for it (using the smart file script from <a href="http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/download.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/download.php</a>) it downloads the file with that long, somewhat ungainly, file name.</p> <p>I notice that when you use the download link from the sent email or the MachForm Form Manager Entries area, it will download with the original correct file name; however I do not want to allow users access to that area.</p> <p>I would like to be able for users to download the files with the original filenames.</p> <p>The download link on my site looks like:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href=&quot;download.php?f=&lt;?php echo $row_Recordset1[&#39;element_3&#39;]; ?&gt;&quot;&gt;Download&lt;/a&gt;</code></pre> <p>and you can see what I'm trying to do here: <a href="http://www.buffalogals.co.uk/Admin/fileshare.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.buffalogals.co.uk/Admin/fileshare.php</a></p> <p>It works fine, except for the characters appended to the file name.</p> <p>Any help would be much appreciated. </p>