[Koha-patches] [PATCH] LibraryThing Cover Images

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have a better idea for storing the cached images?
> LibraryThing limits the number of images you can access per day, and
> recommends caching them. As it stands, they are stored in
> KOHA_ROOL/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl

A few ideas come to mind.

[1] Continue to use a directory on disk.  However, rather than
sticking it in the template directory, we should define a new
static_web_cache directory (or two, one for OPAC and one for intranet)
whose default location is outside the standard template tree and whose
value is set in koha-conf.xml.  That way, we don't reduce the risk of
a Koha sysadmin accidentally making the whole of koha-tmpl read/write
by the Apache user.

[2] Use memcached.  This would require adding a small web service to
fetch and serve images from memcached.

General note: I'm going to use my discretion to let the LT covers
support into 3.2 even though this was submitted after feature freeze,
on the basis that patches adding support for enhanced content are (a)
generally small and nondisruptive and (b) additional enhanced content
support is worth adding onto the development head and the maintenance
version as soon as it becomes available.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
gmcharlt at gmail.com