[Zope] relative path to objects in <dtml-var>

[Dirk Datzert]

Joshua Lanza schrieb:

> My question about this is whether it will break some browsers that are
> looking for a ".gif" or ".jpg" extension?

You can do this without an extension. The Image type is detected by upload
into a Content-Type of
image/gif, image/jpg or image/png and is sent back by the http-header

> I'm sure that there must be
> some meta data in the files themselves declaring that "I'm a jpg", but I
> have avoided "x_jpg" because of this concern. Does anyone know that this
> won't pose a problem?
>
> Josh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Datzert [mailto:Dirk.Datzert@rasselstein-hoesch.de]
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:35 PM
> To: Roy Mathew
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] relative path to objects in <dtml-var>
>
> Hi Roy,
>
> your problem maybe the dot in the filename x.gif, x.png !? This is not
> allowed
> in a pyhton expression.
>
> Make a TransparentFolder named Images in the root / .
> Put your graphics into Images named x_gif and x_png and you should can
> call them
> in every dtml like
>
> <dtml-var x_gif> or <dtml-var x_png>
>
> Regards,
> Dirk
>
> Roy Mathew schrieb:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > I am trying to use acquisition to include images in my webpages. My
> intent
> > is to have a central directory of Images, and several other
> hierararchies
> > of Zope objects that use those images.
> >
> > For example, witness the following structure:
> >
> >   Images/gifs/x.gif
> >   Images/pngs/x.png
> >   Content/A/page1_dtml  (contains: <dtml-var x.gif>)
> >   Content/B/page1_dtml  (contains: <dtml-var x.png>)
> >
> > My understanding of using pathnames in acquisition, is that one needs
> > to insert the minimum relative path to the images from a reachable
> > parent folder, that one can get away with, somewhere in the referring
> URL.
> >
> > Now, if I use the URL
> >   http://localhost/Content/Images/gifs/A/page1_dtml
> > OR
> >   http://localhost/Content/Images/pngs/B/page1_dtml
> > thing work fine.
> >
> > What I would really like to do is be able to specify the paths to the
> images
> > inside
> > of the dtml file itself, something like:
> >   Content/A/page1_dtml  (contains: <dtml-var Images/gifs/x.gif>)
> >   Content/B/page1_dtml  (contains: <dtml-var Images/pngs/x.png>)
> >
> > so that my URLS can be simpler, like:
> >   http://localhost/Content/A/page1_dtml
> >   http://localhost/Content/B/page1_dtml
> > and still find the gifs.
> >
> > But this fails in ZOPE; can someone show me the light please!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Roy Mathew.
> >
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