is it somehow possible to use a category path outside of $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]?
I am sitting in front of a little challenge. At the moment, I am trying to move my home intranet from a whole bunch of self-written stuff, which partially is 15+ years old and basically unmaintainable, into Joomla.
One issue are the security cameras. I have a few cameras around the house and use motion on my home server to take snapshots and do motion detection, etc. Naturally, I don't want those cams publicly accessible. Motion saves the snapshots to a directory well outside the webserver partition. In my old intranet, I used a helper to access them - showwebcam.php.
I was used so that I could simply use <img src="/showwebcam.php?cam=1"> and the script would check if the acces is from an authorized user and then output the jpeg file. Like this:
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<?php
session_start();
include "include/functions.php";
header ("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
if (authbitset($ACCESS_SERVICES_WEBCAM)) {
switch ($cam)
{
case 3 :
$file = file_get_contents("/raid/webcam/webcam-3.jpg");
break;;
case 2 :
$file = file_get_contents("/raid/webcam/webcam-2.jpg");
break;;
default :
$file = file_get_contents("/raid/webcam/webcam-1.jpg");
break;;
}
echo $file;
}
else {
$file = file_get_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/webcam/unauth.jpg");
echo $file;
}
?>
So the question is, can I do something like this with Phoca Gallery, i.e. have images in a folder outside the doc root and give access to them based on user groups or auth levels?
