[pmwiki-users] File manager -- links to files that have not been uploade

[chr at home.se]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 chr at home.se wrote:

> I'm thinking of installing separate software to manage uploaded files 
> (including uploading, renaming, directory creation etc). There seems to be 
> a lot of file managers written in PhP, so right now I'm focusing on how to 
> interface the wiki. This is just a start to figure out what API I need.
> 
> Let's assume that the file manager is invoked by going to a URI such as:
> 
> 	http://www.pmwiki.org/filemanager.php?...
> 
> How can I now make PmWiki interface with it?

This post will discuss what I'd like to happen if the uploaded file that 
you refer to using e.g. uploads:file.txt doesn't exist.

!!! Linking to files and directories that do not exist

When you use a directive such as

	uploads:file.txt

it would normally create a link that points to

	UPLOADS/{$Group}/file.txt

However, if that file doesn't exist, I'd like the markup to be rendered
similar to what happens when we use Attach: today. In other words, it
could be rendered as "uploads:file.txt?", and clicking on the "?"  the
file should invoke the file manager with suitable arguments to make it
easy for the user to upload the corresponding file.

I guess that is basically it... the recipe would have to be able to parse 
the path argument, check if the file exists and create the proper link 
accordingly.

I guess it's now time for thoughts on how this could be implemented in
pmwiki? As for the interface to the file manager, I believe we are talking
about these functions that need to be invoked somehow:

* Browse a specific directory
* Upload a named file to a specific directory
* Start the file manager in general

/Christian

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr