Could be done with .htaccess also: http://www.thomsonchemmanoor.com/16-useful-htaccess-tricks-and-hacks-for-web-developers.html
On Feb 1, 1:17 am, mackeian <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm currently working on a community-like page, where gallery-images > exists. These images should not be accessed to anyone not logged in to > the community, for example, no one should be able to > writehttp://myhost/images/image1.jpgwhen not logged in. > > I first thought of using .htaccess for that specific image-folder in > webroot, but then each user have to fill in this user/password as well > (as his login/pass to the site itself), and that seems a little > annoying. But that could be an option. > > Instead I put all images outside the webroot-folder (in /app/images/), > and access them via the Media View (see Views in Cakephp Manual). This > works fine, but performance is really slow, since it takes a php- > action call for every image loaded (e.g. /Images/getImage/31), and > when showing 30 thumbnails this takes some time. > > I would like to point directly to the image (for performance reasons). > Anyone out there knows of a better way to "protect" files from anyone > not logged in to the site? > > Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
