On 3 Sep 2010, at 14:47, Chris G wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 10:54:09AM +0100, Christopher Smith wrote: >> >> On 3 Sep 2010, at 10:07, Chris G wrote: >> >>> >>> So, firstly *why* does Dokuwiki change everything to lower case and, >>> secondly, are there any realy big issues with getting Dokuwiki to >>> allow upper case media names? All non-alphabetic characters can be >>> handled as at present, I only need to allow A-Z to stay unchanged. >>> >> >> Dokuwiki insists on lower case names to ensure portability between >> case-sensitive and case-insensitive file systems. > >> >>> I can see several workarounds (other than allowing Dokuwiki to 'see' >>> uppper case names) many of which would be quite easy to implement but >>> nearly all would add an extra layer/step into my sharing strategy and >>> I want to keep things as simple as possible. >> >> If you're using *nix. Make a script to mirror your photo directory using >> links (hard or symbolic), with the filenames converted to lowercase. Link >> the mirrored directory into DokuWiki's media space. >> > Exactly the sort of workaround I'd thought of but it does involve that > extra, annoying, stage that I'd really like to aviod if I can. > I'd have to either run the linking script using cron, say once a day, > which would mean just uploaded pictures wouldn't be immediately > available. Or I'd have to run it manually, which is just a nuisance. > > If I could persuade Dokuwiki to allow upper case image names then all > I'd have to do is: load pictures into photo software (which I do > already) and then add image links (or, more likely, gallery links) > from dokuwiki. Adding a, probably, command line task to this sequence > is, while not that onerous, just annoying. > I looked into that. Right now there is no way to do it with plugins. There is one line, I think in media_search, where dw checks that the image file name matches the cleaned (no uppercase) version of the file name. You could disable or modify that check. I have no idea what side-effects there would be. Why only run the cron once a day? Run it every couple of minutes. - Chris