[Radiant] how offer a list of PDF files?

[Mohit Sindhwani]

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.