Thankfully cakes media views allow you to specify a folder anywhere on the webserver!
What i decided to do was to make a simple controller called media and route all of my USG images through it.
class MediaController extends AppController {
/**
*
* @var string
* @access public
*/
var $name = 'Media';
var $uses = array();
/**
* Index action.
*
* @access public
*/
function index( $file = null, $size = 's' ) {
$this->view = 'Media';
$components = split('\.',$file);
$params = array(
'id'=> $components[0],
'name'=> $components[0],
'extension'=> $components[1],
'path' => ROOT . DS. 'media' . DS .'filter'. DS . $size .DS . 'transfer' . DS . 'gen' . DS
);
$this->set($params);
}
}
So the controller looks a little something like this in it's raw form. I'm using the Media plugin, hence the addition folder paths. The key thing to note is the 'Path' key/val pair in the $params array. Notice you can pass an absolute file path! so in theory you could even mount another drive, and serve your media from there, pretty awesome.
This way, i can use a url like this
example.com/media/filename.jpg/l
To get a large image, and
example.com/media/filename.jpg/s
And this to get a small image.
Quite handy!
