[Zope] Multiple Resource Folders and Acquisition

[J Cameron Cooper]

> Yes, that would work. But it would make a horrible mess of my 
> directory. (with rollovers, etc, somewhere near 50 images need to be 
> in the root). Ironically, I'd be happy to have the site specific 
> outside a subfolder, as they number <5. Oh well...
>
> I would *really* like to find a simple way to tidy this up. I've not 
> been able to get the standard_error_message to redirect to a graphic, 
> although I can get it to return the graphic with accompanying generic 
> IMG tags. *sigh*

There is something called TransparentFolder, which makes acquisition 
work in reverse. It can cause a performance hit, but you'll have to 
decide whether that is worth the cleaning-up you get. Another option is 
to do something like

/
  graphics
     img1
     img2
     sites
         site1
            graphics
               img3

You can also use an OrderedFolder (built-in in 2.7) to stick all the 
images to the bottom.

          --jcc

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