[Zope] Upload to Filesystem

Michel Pelletier michel@digicool.com
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:10:16 -0400


Oliver Frommel wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently in the process of deciding whether to use Zope or PHP for
> a web based editing system. While browsing over the Zope email archive I saw
> some announcements/request of a filesystem based upload system, but not really
> any replies. What is a good way to upload Files via a web interface to the
> Zope machine's (not necessarily accessible from Zope after upload) filesystem.
> We want to serve Real Audio files from this box, too, but i don't think
> storing hundreds of Real Audio Files in the object store is a good option
> (and wouldn't work anyway, because the RA Server needs physical access to the
> RA files). Any possible solutions?

Just write an external method that writes the uploaded file to disk. 
Interfacing external (to the object DB) systems is one of the
motivations behind external methods.  A method to do this would be so
trivial you could probably sqeeze it into two lines.

-Michel