[Pmwiki-users] File Uploads (Question, plus Suggestion)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:16:54PM -0800, Steven Leite wrote:
> 
>    Question:   There  was  some  discussion  of  attaching files to pages
>    instead  of  groups.   What came of that?  I'd like to be able to bulk
>    upload  files  in  a folder, but I don't want 1000 files showing up in
>    the  [$Attachlist]  directive.   I'd  like  to  see  the [$Attachlist]
>    directive  work only for the current page (assuming we could put those
>    files in a folder specifically for that page).

http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Cookbook/UploadGroups

>    Suggestion:   I'd  also  like  to see the upload function work so that
>    users  can specify (to a limit) a directory of files instead of having
>    to  upload  files.   

Browsers don't really support this, so there's not much I can do about it.
Previous discussion on the topic has suggested that perhaps PmWiki could
accept zip files which are then unpacked on the server, but I have a few
security issues with this approach.  Still, it could be written as a
Cookbook replacement to the upload module.

Pm