[pmwiki-users] First class attachments

[Ryan Varick]

[Sorry, I meant to send this to the entire list]

Gallery is "the" open source image gallery.  v2 is especially neat.
You can check it out at http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php.  There
is a pinned "demo sites" thread on the forum, here's the first one
listed:  http://rickshell.com/gallery/main.php.

Now I'm new to the list and haven't been able to digest this
wikitrails argument, but I was going to ask a related question:  can
attachments be made into their own entity?  I love pmWiki and have had
a great time hacking it to my liking, but I haven't been able to
figure out exactly how it constructs a link outside of upload.php.

I'm trying to customize my hyperlinks and standardize everything to
bracket notation.  This is fine for wiki links (normal styles) and
external URLs (wikipedia-esque "open in new window" icon) because they
have their own styles.  But attachments, so far as I can tell, are
treated as urllinks.  I want to specify a seperate download icon for
attachment links.  Ideally, I would use different icons for different
attachments (e.g., .doc gets a Word icon, .pdf gets a PDF, etc).  I do
not believe that would be difficult if I could figure out the link
maker.  I already have upload.php create link text that puts the
extension in parenthesis if pipe-notation is used to specify the
attachment name.  A little conditional logic should be all that's
required to use that extension to specify an image...

Ryan


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:51:59 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud
<pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:48:33PM -0500, Martin Fick wrote:
> >   All this talk of categories and wikitrails led me to this
> > strange tought: how about making attachments (uploads)
> > first class wiki pages in that they could be put in wiki
> > trails and categories.
> > [...]
> >   If you apply that to images, you have got 'Gallery' beat
> > right off the back! You could easily make albums from
> > trails and categories.  Pictures could be in multiple
> > categories.  This system would be much more flexible than
> > static photo albums.  Imagine cateogries by person, place,
> > event... Albums could obviously then contain regular wiki
> > pages also  (and any other doc).
> >
> >   Can this already be done in some easy way that I haven't
> > figured out?
>
> I think it can be done reasonably easily but we just haven't
> thought about it much yet.  Plus, I haven't looked at 'Gallery'
> to see how it works or what capabilities it provides -- could
> someone summarize its essential features for me, or point me
> to a good demo site?
>
> Pm
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