Cannot read/open CSV file from field in page under admin

[hellomoto]

I am working on a module that runs/previews (for pub/unpub) imports on importer page view. The template has to be in site/templates, so far as I know, so one is created there on install which includes a file to run from within the module, but then when it's run and tries to read the importer csv file it cannot, since it's in the admin, I guess... Is it possible to set the template page to a file in the module directory? Will that work?

[hellomoto]

I have this happening in the template file:

    if(file_exists($filepath)) echo $filepath;
    echo "<a href='$filepath'>csv</a>";
    $file = fopen($filepath, 'r');
    print_r(fgetcsv($file, 0, ',', '"'));
    fclose($file);

where $filepath = $this->source->url (in a class method). So it's the page's attached CSV file's URL. The link works and downloads the file, which supposedly doesn't exist, according to the preceding line. Why??

[LostKobrakai]

On 19.8.2017 at 7:31 PM, hellomoto said:

Is it possible to set the template page to a file in the module directory?

There's $template->altFilename which I think is relative to the templates folder.

[hellomoto]

I tried using that with ../'s in the value to grab from the module's directory to no avail.

Here is the module in progress:

The file in question is import/csv.class.php.

I appreciate any and all feedback regarding the makeup of this module.

[gmclelland]

I like the direction you are going with that module.  It looks like it could be really useful.

[hellomoto]

Idk