Sep 10, 2001, 1:14 PM
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Sep 10, 2001, 1:14 PM
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Ok,
I'll admit first I don't have a working system yet, since lots of things have gotten in the way, and I'm starting a new network from scratch with 2.05 so that I don't get any "features" confused between all the older versions and mods, and the current, stable release (soon to be 2.1 ??? :)
Anyway, what Alex did with the uploads is "assume" they would be stored in a non-public directory. Jump.cgi will find the file, and output it as a MIME (or HTML/IMGE/etc) stream, so the browser knows what to do with it. This allows images to reside in "restricted" areas. It works similar to an advertising program serving banners into an HTML page.
I haven't played with this fully, but it's fundamentally different than what most people are used to, or probably are really looking for in content delivery.
If you are uploading images, and want to keep them in your public tree, you can use standard IMG SRC tags.
Otherwise, think in terms of "banners" and you'll probably catch on :)
Because of my accident, and limitations, I'm considering making my mods, or partial mods available for public download, with the stipulation that any changes or fixes are posted here and/or to me.
I've approached Alex about this, so that the Logo, Graphic, and Image Upload mods I have (which are a superset of what GT has in the program now), along with the multiple file attachment mod, which uses a different approch than GT, but will overlay pretty well can maybe be incorporated into Links.
If this happens, everyone who bought the mods from me will know they contributed to it, and those who purchased the smaller mods, will get some help setting them up. Everyone who purchased the full-system, will still get that image management program once it's done, and maybe more. I am still building that, and it's built on the basis of the smaller mods (widgets).
I should have a "virgin" 2.05 set up in a day or two, and will merge the Logo/Graphic mod into it, using the built in file fields if at all possible. This doesn't use the jump.cgi, and assumes images are in the public tree. Because of how this works, it should be possible to have data fields that are "public" like logo images, and data fields that are server-served-only, such as paid content.
Some of you know the details of my situation, but most don't, and all I can say is I'm sorry it's shaken out like this, right when things were ramping up, but right now all I can do is try to make the best of what's now. I should be back to daily message answering, and code snippets now, but my ability to do heavy duty programming (typing) is limited.
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