Kelvin Cheong writes:

Anybody know where I can find out more about LocalFS, I've already read jfarr's How-to's and Product Information. But I still need more on how it works.

It helps to pay very careful attention to the help info (in .../Products/LocalFS/methodHelp.dtml if you're not running 2.2 yet). Beyond that, there's only the source...

<!--#var standard_html_header--> <H2><!--#var title_or_id--> <!--#var document_title--></H2> <P> <dtml-with REQUEST> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('userTABPIX1',REQUEST.form['userTABPIX1'])"> <dtml-call "manage_addImage('',userTABPIX1)"> </dtml-with> <!--#call "TutadobeInsertMethod(REQUEST)"-->

Data Has Been Successfully Inserted!

<!--#var standard_html_footer-->

I tried replacing (blindly) the <dtml-with REQUEST> tag with both <dtml-with myLocalFS1> and <dtml-in myLocalFS1>, and as to my expectations it did not work. How would I actually upload to the LocalFS object (myLocalFS1) I've created?

To programatically upload a file you need to: 1. Get the file info in a FileUpload object. The normal way to do this is via a form input tag of type "file". 2. Call myLocalFS1.manage_upload(file, REQUEST). For dtml, that would look something like: <dtml-call "myLocalFS1.manage_upload(file, REQUEST)">. Warning, the current official version of manage_upload will try to display a MessageDialog page that will send you to the management pages if REQUEST is not None. I've patched my version to redirect back to 'index_html' instead, which makes much more sense if you allow users without management rights to upload files. For a very useful sample, the default LocalFS index_html page is .../Products/LocalFS/methodBrowse.dtml. It includes an upload link that uses manage_uploadForm, which is a standard Zope method defined in several files in .../lib/python/OFS. I think that the one this page will use is defined in DTMLMethod.py to be documentUpload.dtml in the same directory. Hope this helps, Dan Pierson