[Koha-patches] [PATCH] LibraryThing Cover Images

[Kyle Hall]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That sounds like a good idea. I would suggest we have either 1 or 3 of
these directories. Either 1 shared by both the OPAC and Intranet, or
one for each plus a shared directory. That way, each image will not
need to be downloaded twice ( once each for the OPAC and Intranet ).
Something like:
/var
  /koha
    /intranet
    /opac
    /shared
      /LibraryThing
        /small
        /medium
        /large

Makes sense to me. What would be the best way to then make it web
accessible? I imagine some entry in koha's apache conf, but I'm not
sure what would be the best way to go about doing so.

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

I'm not familiar with memcached, so I pulled up the wikipedia page on
it. It looks like is used for caching database queries. Would it work
for filesystem based storage?

Kyle


> 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
> --
> Galen Charlton
> gmcharlt at gmail.com
>