Mark D. Anderson wrote: > I want to expose an archive of PDFs of monthly newsletters. > I don't want to create a "Page" entity for each file. > I'd instead like some way to iterate through the file system via some > glob, something like > > <r:findfile glob="newsletters/*.pdf"> > <a href="<r:url/>"><r:url/></a> > </r:findfile> > > Where a relative path in the glob is relative to "public". > > Actually, what I really want is also the ability to extract information > from the filenames, which are typically like "newsletter-2007-04.pdf". > So then it might hypothetically be: > > <r:findfile glob="newsletters/*.pdf"> > <r:matches string="<r:url/>" expr="/newsletter-(\d+)-(\d+)/"/> > <a href="<r:url/>"><r:match value="$1"/> <r:month-name month="$2"/></a> > </r:findfile> > > The above is rather ugly, but anyhow, I can't seem to find any way to do the > above. > > I'm debating whether I shouldn't write a perl program to generate an RSS file > based on the existing pdfs, put that in a cron job, and then have Radiant > process > that external RSS file using the "externalrss" extension. > Except I can't figure out yet how to get any extensions installed.... > > -mda
My thought process would be to dump them in a sub-directory of public and then add an extension/ tag that lets you iterate through it. I'm not sure if you could just use the page_attachments extension, though? Cheers, Mohit. 10/5/2007 | 2:01 PM. _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
