Posted by budda on August 27, 2007 at 1:29pm
I was expecting a Drupal module for S3 to already be in existence by now, as there isn't I have a proposal for a module I'm considering developing. Any feedback or suggestions on the implementation/features are greatly welcome.
This is not intended to be a full FileAPI-like module, but more a helper for general node related usage.
- Support for node attachments (Core upload.module), CCK filefield uploads etc that are attached to a node.
- Upon publishing of a node, any associated files are streamed over to Amazon S3 bucket(s).
- Via hook_nodeapi() new attributes are added to nodes that provide a fully qualified link to the mirrored file on S3
- Option to delete the local version of the file from the server once its mirrored to S3.
Example theme functions to be used in template.php to display links to the S3 versions of files.
Comments
Check out media_mover
The media_mover module (http://drupal.org/project/media_mover) has an S3 component. You can use it to take all of the files attached to nodes of any type(s) and upload them to S3. It keeps track of the S3 public URL so that you can serve them straight from S3.
Sounds excellent, thanks for
Sounds excellent, thanks for thr tip!
Hmm, have you actually used
Hmm, have you actually used the Media Mover system? It doesn't seem to work :-S
more on Media Mover?
I'm about to try out the Media Mover module for the very same purpose as you, and I came across your posting and comments here. Were you ever able to get the module to work? Did you have any luck with an alternative implementation of Amazon S3 storage with Drupal?
Thanks,
Ben
S3 - Same wondering? Is this the best way?
Wuld love to hear more about what happened with your foray, budda.
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