file handling

A few folks are gathered in the Advomatic office in NYC this week to bang out a new backend and GUI for file uploading for Drupal. Yesterday myself, Aaron Winborn and Darrel O'Pry nailed down using PHP Stream wrappers to handle storage of files and embeded objects the same way- this means that we'll be able to use and reuse content from third party providers the same way that we can use content on the local Drupal file system- a big deal.

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I noticed on the Drupal development mailing list, that Drupal 7 has some significant changes for file handling. From Angie Byron (webchick): I just rolled the second in the series of Drupal 7 unstable releases for developers (see http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2008-October/031094.html for more info). Among the highlights this release are: * Several awesome File API improvements. Files are now "first-class objects" like nodes and users are, the API has been dramatically cleaned up for better consistency, AND there are a slew of new hooks like hook_file_load() and hook_file_validate() for contrib modules to react to when stuff happens to files. This is a great enabler for some awesome stuff in core like image handling and document management. See http://api.drupal.org/api/search/7/hook_file for more info. A HUGE shout-out to Andrew Morton (drewish) for sticking with this patch throughout its long, LONG development cycle. :)

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