How to change "input file" storage location in customer account edit form

Question

I have added a customer attribute called "My File". It gets added in customer account edit form. By default, the selected file(My File) is saved under "pub/media/customer" directory. In my case, I want to save those files alone under "pub/media/my_files". How to achieve it? Please help me!

Creating attributes in InstallData.php

use Magento\Customer\Setup\CustomerSetupFactory;
use Magento\Customer\Model\Customer;
use Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute\Set as AttributeSet;
use Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute\SetFactory as AttributeSetFactory;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\InstallDataInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleContextInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleDataSetupInterface;
use Magento\Framework\App\ProductMetadataInterface;
/**
 * @codeCoverageIgnore
 */
class InstallData implements InstallDataInterface
{
 /**
 * Customer setup factory
 *
 * @var CustomerSetupFactory
 */
 private $customerSetupFactory;
 /**
 * Customer Attribute setup factory
 *
 * @var AttributeSetFactory
 */
 private $attributeSetFactory;
 /**
 * Customer Attribute setup factory
 *
 * @var ProductMetadataInterface
 */
 private $productMetadataInterface;
 /**
 * Init
 *
 * @param CustomerSetupFactory $customerSetupFactory
 * @param AttributeSetFactory $attributeSetFactory
 * @param ProductMetadataInterface $productMetadataInterface
 */
 public function __construct(CustomerSetupFactory $customerSetupFactory, AttributeSetFactory $attributeSetFactory, ProductMetadataInterface $productMetadataInterface)
 {
 $this->customerSetupFactory = $customerSetupFactory;
 $this->attributeSetFactory = $attributeSetFactory;
 $this->productMetadataInterface = $productMetadataInterface;
 }
 /**
 * {@inheritdoc}
 * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.ExcessiveMethodLength)
 */
 public function install(ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup, ModuleContextInterface $context)
 {
 /** @var CustomerSetup $customerSetup */
 $customerSetup = $this->customerSetupFactory->create(['setup' => $setup]);
 $customerEntity = $customerSetup->getEavConfig()->getEntityType('customer');
 $attributeSetId = $customerEntity->getDefaultAttributeSetId();
 /** @var $attributeSet AttributeSet */
 $attributeSet = $this->attributeSetFactory->create();
 $attributeGroupId = $attributeSet->getDefaultGroupId($attributeSetId);
 $attributeList['my_file'] = [
 'type' => 'varchar',
 'label' => 'My file',
 'input' => 'file',
 'required' => false,
 'visible' => true,
 'user_defined' => true,
 'sort_order' => 150,
 'position' => 150,
 'system' => 0,
 'validate_rules' => '{"max_file_size":1048576,"file_extensions":"pdf,jpg,png,jpeg,PDF,JPG,PNG,JPEG"}'
 ];
 $attributeList['my_file_link'] = [
 'type' => 'varchar',
 'label' => 'My File Link',
 'input' => 'text',
 'required' => false,
 'visible' => true,
 'user_defined' => true,
 'sort_order' => 160,
 'position' => 160,
 'system' => 0
 ];
 foreach ($attributeList as $key => $value) {
 $customerSetup->addAttribute(Customer::ENTITY, $key, $value);
 //add attribute to attribute set
 $attribute = $customerSetup->getEavConfig()->getAttribute(Customer::ENTITY, $key)
 ->addData(
 [
 'attribute_set_id' => $attributeSetId,
 'attribute_group_id' => $attributeGroupId,
 'used_in_forms' => ['customer_account_edit', 'checkout_register', 'adminhtml_customer']
 ]
 );
 $attribute->save();
 }
 }
}

• anonymous: You use any extension ? If not then share your code where you wrote to save attribute value.
• Prema Karthik: Updated the question, please have a look

Answer 1

You can modiy code as per you need. I suggest you to observe customer_register_success event. More about observers here.

 $uploaderFactory = $this->uploaderFactory->create(['fileId' => 'my_file']);
 //Magento\MediaStorage\Model\File\UploaderFactory
 $uploaderFactory->setAllowedExtensions(['jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'pdf']);
 $imageAdapter = $this->adapterFactory->create();
 // Magento\Framework\Image\AdapterFactory
 $uploaderFactory->setAllowRenameFiles(true);
 $uploaderFactory->setFilesDispersion(true);
 $mediaDirectory = $this->filesystem->getDirectoryRead(DirectoryList::MEDIA);
 $destinationPath = $mediaDirectory->getAbsolutePath('your preferable directory under media');
 $result = $uploaderFactory->save($destinationPath);
 $document = $result['file'];

• Prema Karthik: Thanks for the support! But if we use, customer_register_success event, it gets triggered after saving the customer details right? In this scenario, already the file gets uploaded in the customer folder, right?
• anonymous: I dont think so. In observer you can change that behaviour.