Image path is far too large!!

Monday 08 June 2009 9:24:36 am

Hi again

When I mean shorten the names I am refering not the structure of directories at the site (they should have whatever the used whats), but the names used to "make up" the path where the images are stored at "Var" so at the end the path gets shortened.

Maybe I could hack some php code somewhere!

Any help?

Thanks

Diseño Web Cuba
Web Design Cuba
www.elfosdesign.com

Wednesday 10 June 2009 5:44:57 am

Well, no.

I say what you need to do is
more clearly describe in exacting detail

Why and how do you need image paths
(of all paths generated by ezpublish)
to be shorter in order for us to make
a recomendation (my thoughts).

Cause I read this thread and I still do not
understand what need is requiring shorter paths.

Are you really saying that your content tree is so large
(has so many levels of depth) that it cuts off the file
name or unique id out of the generated urls ! wow that's a big site ...

I'm certain this too is possible to achive.
Some specifics as to how to do it may
depend on where and how you want
to use the shorter urls.

It sounds like you need to change the way you handle urls in ez.

Could you not use instead the older id based url style (before nice urls existed in ez) to access files and images? ie: /content/view/full/2 - /content/download/170/1050/sample05.swf

Otherwise it would seem like you need to first devise a solution to what kind of url style would avoid this depth issue and meets with your approval. I could think of tinyurl style urls as an additional option to nice urls, some crazy ez php api class changes to support a new url style and related code to switch to this new style with an existing ez install/site.

For all the work involved I'd consider strongly using the older id based urls to standardize your uri calls to the application (links) instead of engineering an new url style into the phpcode.

Cheers,
<i>//kracker

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Wednesday 10 June 2009 6:40:59 am

No Worries,

I did a quick search of the default design templates and found this example.

{concat("content/download/",$attribute.contentobject_id,"/",$attribute.content.contentobject_attribute_id,"/",$attribute.content.original_filename)|ezurl}

This is the format I would use / replace your existing template links to the content objects. Obviously you will have to replace the variables above with your actual object id / attribute_id and original file name.

Cheers,
<i>//kracker

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Wednesday 10 June 2009 8:21:06 am

kracker: this is path limitation problem on Windows, so content download won't help as the image still need to be stored in the directory structure.

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#long-paths
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx#maximum_path_length

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