[Clipart] Filenames

Michael Moore stuporglue at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 23:24:36 PST 2005


> I suspect in the early days of
> the project we lost a number of submissions because of overwrite by new
> files with the same name.

Aaah. It's all making sense now. :-)

> This is why we needed a way to generate *unique* filenames for each file
> and the solution used was to include the author name in the file name
> (IIRC, i proposed at the time to include also the submission date).
>
> IMO, our best option at the moment is to move our asses and start
> working on adapting ccHost for our specific needs, roll it out for the
> site infrastructure and be all happy. How good are your php skills? Can
> you help on this?

Things are making more sense now. What's ccHost -- Creative Commons
Host? My php skills are nearly nonexistant.I'm getting to the point
that I can read it, and usually tweak it without breaking it, but
that's about it. What's the plan? Maybe I can learn.

Thanks,
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Michael Moore
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