With ExternalFS product you can connect the filesystem from inside Zope. That might be an idea in this case. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Khine" <khine@bmpublications.co.uk> To: "Zope Mailing List" <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:39 PM Subject: [Zope] External Images
Hello,
I have a public folder in usr/local/apache/htdocs/posters/ of my apache setup containing something like 3,000 images.
Now my question is how do I go about in using this information within zope, without actually having to import all the images into zope?
I already have a database which has indexed all the filenames for the images, I can create a ZSQL Method which displays this, but I can figure how to specify the external file system, so that when I have a method to display an image, the image id is picked up from the ZSQL Method, this adds it to <img src="usr/local/apache/htdocs/posters/image1.jpg" border="0" alt="" />
I can create content using html tags within a method, so that includes links to an external images resource. e.g. <img src="http://localhost/catalog/posters/61_imageThree.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> which works.
BUT is this the done thing????
Hope it makes sense..
Thanks
Norman
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