On 11-04-18 09:23 AM, Juan RodrÃguez wrote:
Hi folk,
I studing wikimedia system and there is something I want to know about
images:
Is it possible to upload (and so on store) the images in different folders?
I realised that when you do a normal upload, files are stored in folders
with *arbitrary?* name like: "A", "01", etc. Does anybody know what
programming mechanism is used to allow this? Could it be used to upload
files to different folders?
Thanks.
That's the $wgHashedUploadDirectory setting (on by default) which is
used to avoid having too many files in one folder because some
filesystems don't perform well with large numbers of files in one folder.
The algorithm for that is based on a md5 of the name, the first hex
character is used for the first directory, then the first two characters
are used for the subdirectory.
Foo.png -> md5 = f865cbca12286c1c5b7616b4a70fbf68 -> f + f8 = /f/f8/Foo.png
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]