The only intended use for this function is to generate an Id. number
which will be used in the Meilisearch database and linking it to
Nera's database (I.E. this site's main database).
This is a rough sketching out of what the model/data needs to look
like. This model is what will be connecting the site's archive (Nic's
artwork entries) with the Meilisearch service -- running alongside
each other. I don't know how much this model is going to change but
expect it to in future commits.
When uploading a file, a thumbnail is made (if an image, using the
Image Magick program with Bash). This file is not stored in the
database. It is a file-system only thing. The reason for adding this
is some I can create HTML templates/defroutes which show a list of the
images in /storage/media without saturating the viewers bandwidth.
I need to work on this functionality a bit more. This is an end of
session commit. Started it and it works but needs expanding.
I could do with adding file-type checks and changing 'octet/stream' to
something like 'image/png' depending on the file-type (storage in
DB). This will stop the browser from downloading every file in
/storage/media and allow the files which can be viewed in the
browser (like images).
This is an end-of-session commit. I've got the route up and running
with the /user/storage HTML template rendering in the browser and
listing out the files in storage. I could do with adding a model and
storing the files meta-data in the database. This page could do with
rendering the images and placeholders (E.G.generic text file icon) for
non-image files.
The original code was very ham-fisted in how it dealt with storing
files -- based on their file-types. The changes made here improves on
it and the store-file (for both raw and /storage paths) functions now
accepts more file types because of it.
These files will be created and populated via the site first-run
set-up process. This should stop the commit history getting clogged up
with needless and irrelevant changes in these files.
