Hi - I have acouple questions regarding a photo content management system I am building as a tutorial to learn various aspects of Zope. So... I need some pointing in the right direction on the following... What is the most appropriate way to say add (5) containers of varying numbers of images without using the Zope management interface to manually add each one? I guess it might be possible to write a tool that iterates through a file directory and add an image element into a zope folder... or are there provisions already for this sorta thing? Also, if you want to give someone an easy interface to use to have access to adding/deleting photos in this scenario - would you have to build it? or is there something within Zope that allows a non-Zope'er to be able to access a form to do this maintenace? Any help or some pointing to what how-tos I should read would be very helpful. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, David Kovach dave@kovach.com _____________________________________________________ Get your name as your email and web site address. http://www.NetIdentity.com. Be somebody online.
What I do: I have the original pictures on a spare local drive. I then use <zope dir>/utlilities/load_site.py (great feature!!) to upload the JPEGs from my machine to my site as Image objects. Lastly I have a little python script on my site that loops through all the directories and converts Image objects into Photo objects, and bins the Image object. I would get the same result if I opened the ZMI remotly and upload the JPEGs as Photos directly. But if I'm on a modem line the silly web browser upload plus the process time to convert JPEG to Photo, can break the connection which is very annoying. Search zope.org for information about the Photo product. It's all quite simple actually. Bonne chances, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: <dave@kovach.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:52 AM Subject: [Zope] Image Content
Hi -
I have acouple questions regarding a photo content management system I am building as a tutorial to learn various aspects of Zope. So... I need some pointing in the right direction on the following...
What is the most appropriate way to say add (5) containers of varying numbers of images without using the Zope management interface to manually add each one?
I guess it might be possible to write a tool that iterates through a file directory and add an image element into a zope folder... or are there provisions already for this sorta thing?
Also, if you want to give someone an easy interface to use to have access to adding/deleting photos in this scenario - would you have to build it? or is there something within Zope that allows a non-Zope'er to be able to access a form to do this maintenace?
Any help or some pointing to what how-tos I should read would be very helpful. Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
David Kovach dave@kovach.com
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Get your name as your email and web site address. http://www.NetIdentity.com. Be somebody online.
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I think it's a good idea to help to enhance Jonothan's LocalFS product. I use it to browse image files at already filesystem existing directories, and also to watch those images rendered at the very main screen, when they're under a threshold file size. If you restrict conveniently the access to those directories trough the filesystem, you don't need to store them at the ZDB, with the obvious advantage of not crowding it. The current downside is that you can't store metadata, but that's a noticeable "todo" at the readme. I've tried ExtFile product and ZPhoto product too, and though they have good features on their own, I think a merging-features work should be done, in order to offer directory imports to ZDB(for previews and metadata storing issues, cataloguing, and sinchronization to filesystem changes) and external filesystem storing. A tool like this would be a good starting point to a reliable multimedia asset CMS. Ausum dave@kovach.com wrote:
Hi -
I have acouple questions regarding a photo content management system I am building as a tutorial to learn various aspects of Zope. So... I need some pointing in the right direction on the following...
What is the most appropriate way to say add (5) containers of varying numbers of images without using the Zope management interface to manually add each one?
I guess it might be possible to write a tool that iterates through a file directory and add an image element into a zope folder... or are there provisions already for this sorta thing?
Also, if you want to give someone an easy interface to use to have access to adding/deleting photos in this scenario - would you have to build it? or is there something within Zope that allows a non-Zope'er to be able to access a form to do this maintenace?
Any help or some pointing to what how-tos I should read would be very helpful. Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
David Kovach dave@kovach.com
_____________________________________________________
Get your name as your email and web site address. http://www.NetIdentity.com. Be somebody online.
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