[thelist] media/image management
Steve Lewis
nepolon at worlddomination.net
Mon Jun 30 16:01:25 CDT 2003
Chris W. Parker wrote:
>This is a good point. I think then at the very least I may just append something to the filename. Or maybe being in different directories will suffice... hmm... You've got me thinking.
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Your concern will probably be three-fold:
1) giving users meaningful filenames, making this modifiable after
upload would probably be a good idea to allow folks to fix problematic
filenames.
2) guaranteeing uniqueness on the server, expecially if you have a
number of content providers sharing a common directory structure where
they are likely to accidentally clobber each other's content by using
overly generic filenames.
3) providing a download-friendly filename that is URL friendly as well.
In the past I have stored a "download-friendly" filename (usually just
the filename the author/submitter supplied with URL character entities
replaced: such as " " replaced by "_" etc), as well as a server-only
filename (appending something, like you suggest) when I store the file
in the filesystem (this server-only filename field is unnecessary if the
file is in the DB). This worked pretty well for me.
Steve
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