[development] image node type

andrew morton drewish at katherinehouse.com
Fri Dec 9 18:10:00 UTC 2005


On 12/9/05, Rowan Kerr <rowan0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> A brief thought:
> You could keep "nodes" and "files" separate...

I think this is the way to go, three base types: user, node, file

> Where nodes are any kind of actual content that is typed into the site
> And files are anything that is uploaded by the user
>
> Then you'd have node types and file types.. that could decide just
> how to display different things.

Then things like image and audio wouldn't have to re-implement all the
upload/preview, infact they'd just be hooks to load meta data from the
file.


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