On 6/7/05, MHart wiki@matthart.com wrote:

I don't really understand what you are asking. What is a PO file? What is the "index" directory?

Yes, sorry, it was a quickly written message reacting to a sudden fact realized...

A PO file is somtehing for application translations, but is a text file - just consider as a .txt

The "index" directory, I was referring to the main directory of the wiki where you have index.php, locslsettings.php..and also the PO file (/opt/lampp/htdocs/wiki/, for instance)

The problem basically is that until recently I could consider the PO was there, in the main directory of the wiki, and now I must consider it is readed/written in the hard disk's user.

If I had a file that users needed to upload, and that file had to exist in a specific directory, then I would modify the specialupload form to watch for that specific file and copy it to the needed location. Set permissions on the file so that process is allowed.

Or maybe a cron job to copy it. Or implement a derived specialupload page for that one file.

I thought specialupload can be an option - and the watch the specific file would be a very good option, but I probably should say in the main page a thing like "put your PO files in /root" or something else. As the apllication is designed to people almost no-touching-computers (translators not-computer-related), I'll let this as last option to avoid problems to users.

And then there's the problem of the reverse-upload, but as you say I could copy to the location I have copied it.

All depends of the user capacity - I'll talk to my project bosses tomorrow and hope a "put files here" doesn't seem too difficult to users. If it's that, the specialupload modified would be more than enough

Lot of thanks!

Jordi

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jordi Domingo" jordidr@gmail.com To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:14 AM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Upload/unupload or something better?

Hello, I realized that my apllication based on Mediawiki was based in the concept that I had a PO file provided by other apllication.

The problem is that a few time ago said me that the other application is not developed already - maybe eight months later (would be a new/redone/finished project made by other person).

So, I just realize that I must change things: the PO file was in the index directory and loaded normally (in the same directory as index.php), but now I see it has to work with a PO file provided by the user! (although not in the future, but yes now to work).

I think I can do this by upload the file (there's a textinput already done to "examine" the hard disk of the user, I believe), but it should be done automatically. And later it should be unloaded automatically - another possiblity would be provide a link to download the modified file, but I would like to minify options (potential users are not computer experts).

The best would be that more than upload/unupload - the wiki goes to the path indicated and modifies the file just here. I suppose it's possible, but the fact is that I need to show it tomorrow - if any of you can give me a solution or only an indication on how to do this (accessing the file in hard disk), or even how upload/unupload user-transparent (without user having to press buttons, only select the file in the examine dialog), it would be great.

The application is almost finished and it's only this last-minute-thing that I've realized and is kicking me...

Thanks in advance and sorry if the question is moron: as I said, I just realized it and the one-day limit avoids me time. I beleive I'll can this noon (now I'm in work, no access to my code) do an "upload plus download it", but I see it as a solution of emergency - probably not liked by project bosses.

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