Re: Friendly image/files URL routing

Hi,

> I am uploading files(images, mp3s etc) to my webroot /files/ folder.
> The files are named "<their id number>.<their extension>". Without any
> custom routing I can access these files by "/files/343.png".
>
> I would like to access this file by using the URL "/files/343-
> sometitle.png" as well. At the moment I can do this by using a custom
> route and an action, but this just redirects and so the URL displays "/
> files/343.png" - I would like the URL to not change and for the file
> to be displayed as it would be normally.

You're nearly there. What you need to do is use echo
file_get_contents() in a controller method, eg:

public function img($filename='')
{
$this->autoRender = false;

// check file exists
if (!file_exists(WWW_ROOT.'files'.DS.$filename))
return;

// output file - very crude as it is, you'd want to set the correct
header/mime type etc
echo file_get_contents(WWW_ROOT.DS.'files'.DS.$filename);
}

this only checks for a file with a real name, you'll want to strip out
anything other than the ID.ext

hth

Jon

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