With the backdoor extension (http://backdoor.rubyforge.org/) you can do
something in the line of:
<r:erb>
<% Dir.glob( "newsletters/*.pdf") do |file|
if file =~ /.../
%>
<a href="<%= file%> ... </a>
<% end %>
</r:erb>
/AITOR
On 10/5/07, Mark D. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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