Re: [Vfs-devel] First on the topic list?

[Tony K. <tk...@ca...>]

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From: "Abdul-Wahid Paterson" <ee...@we...>
To: <vfs...@li...>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Vfs-devel] First on the topic list?


> Yes, I am aware of this problem and I think I included it on the original
> TODO list in the 0.1 distrbution. I agree with your solution as it is
> pretty much with what I already had in mind. The disadvantange of the
> filesystem way is that you need to have a webserver writeable directory.

Well we just need to have the user create a directory (or chmod the VFS app
directory) to allow read/write for user nobody (or whatever account they
have apache or whatever web server, running as). And how about doing
something like this...

Save the uploaded file as 'VFS$file_id'
When the user goes to download the file copy the stored file over to the
original file name or create a sym link to the stored file. What's your
ideas? Copy or symbolic link? or does it really matter?

> But apart from that it isn't really a problem. Everyfile has a unique file
> number "file_id". Maybe we could use that for the filesystem filename so
> that it becomes something like VFS$file_id. Is there any advantage of
> making the filename random?

There was no REAL point to the random file name deal. Just a way to make
sure there were no duplicate file names being stored. I like your idea
better :)

>
> I agree with this layout. However, I think we should take a look at the
> class.DBI. Although it would involve a lot being rewritten, they may have
> done a lot of work for us already. I am waiting for Roland to get back to
> us about it. He doesn't seem to have joined the mailing list yet.
>
> You can find out about class.DBI at
>
> http://evil.inetarena.com/php/DBI.php3
>

I've checked out the class. Looks to be very clean. Also looks like it will
get the job done.


Regards,
Tony Kirk