Allowing direct access to images and other resources, moving uploads to the media directory, showing pictures across sites

There are four types of resources we have

1)      Uploaded images

2)      CSS and images related to the theme of this site

3)      CSS and images from this site or its parent

4)      JS files from the engine-room

Currently we just use the SITE_URL and let the PHP code figure out when the request comes back, which slows things down.

I think this is going to take several different solutions to encompass all of the resources we have. We will use the $g_site object to hold this information.

Some items will have new paths

·         Uploaded Images - $g_site->imageUploadDir(), $g_site->imageUploadURL()

·         Resized Images $g_site->imageResizeDir(), $g_site->imageResizeURL()

·         FCKEditor - $g_site->FCKEditorURL()

Some files we will need to “search” for at page creation time

$g_site->getResourceURL($stResourceFile)

Create functions for new paths – 2 hours

Create resource search function – 8 hours

Initialize Uploaded and resized image directories  and URLs and new path URLs – 8 hours (we have to use a new URL to access things from the root of the install)

Change every line of code that uses these – there are currently 569 usages of SITE_URL in the code. Many of those are not affected by this change – 12 hours

Testing changes above – 4 hours

Bugs that will crop up during these changes – 16 hours

Total = 50 hours

We will move all the uploaded files into

media/uploads/sitename

off of the root. Subsites will be directly under site name.

Writing code in install to move the files – 8 hours

Initializing the uploaded and resized image directories differently – 4 hours.

New bugs – 4 hours

Total – 16 hours (I believe that we will save 4 hours from the previous task list by doing these items at the same time)

To show pictures across sites we need to get the information about which site we’re displaying from and figure out its parent and its parent’s parent, etc.

This becomes easier once we put things in the media directory.

Things may be even easier with using the FCKEditor

Include in the ObjektPicture constructor the objekt pointer. – 1 hour

Add to ObjektObjekt a call to get the site key of the objekt – 2 hours

Have ObjektPicture call its Objekt to get the site key and set its URL appropriately – 8 hours

Bugs and testing – 8 hours

Total = 19 hours