[pmwiki-users] DB lookup of picture path
Henrik Bechmann
henrik at bechmannsoftware.com
Mon Feb 20 13:39:09 CST 2006
I'm using coppermine as a photo gallery, which unfortunately doesn't
understand the concept of a repository (filing pictures by named
physical location). Instead it records pictures by (logical) album name
and picture name.
I want to allow my users an easy way to map pictures from this database
to PmWiki pages, and I wonder if anyone has any advice on an approach.
An obvious approach would be to create a directive like
(:galleryimage albumname picturename:)
and have the directive do an SQL query on the database, and substitute
the picture url for the directive.
I wondered if there was some way to use the farmmap/textmap feature, so
that the user could do something like
GalleryImage:?albumname&picturename.jpg
Where GalleryImage: would be mapped to
getpicturepath.php?album=albumname&picture=picturename.jpg
or some such.
Performance is an issue of course, and again any advice on that score
would be welcomed.
Any thoughts, hints, ideas, guidelines, examples?
Thanks,
- Henrik
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