Serving media files from within a vendor directory?

[samwilson]

How would you recommend one go about serving media files (css, js, and images) from within a vendor directory? Specifically, I've got vendor at the top level (DOCROOT), where it's installed by Composer. I've got a hack working with the following in the Media controller:

    if ( ! $cfs_file)
    {
        echo $cfs_file = DOCROOT.'vendor'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$filepath;
    }

but that does seem pretty hacky. Any suggestions?

Thanks! :-)

[zeelot]

Hmm, the module was specifically meant to work with the cascading filesystem, but maybe we can improve this. Can you give me an example of a composer package that adds media files and how the url might look like? Where does the vendor library keep the files?

[samwilson]

Good point. There really isn't any convention in composer libraries about where they keep their web-accessible media files, unfortunately.

Maybe there's a better way. It is actually easy to set up the project's composer.json to put the vendor directory into Kohana's APPPATH (by using "vendor-dir": "application/vendor"), so does that make it easier to keep it within the CFS?

At the moment, media files are located with

$cfs_file = Kohana::find_file('media', $filepath, FALSE);

so perhaps this could be followed by

if ( ! $cfs_file)
{
    $cfs_file = Kohana::find_file('vendor', $filepath, FALSE);
}

Although, that's a bit hacky too, considering that find_file() is a thing that's meant to iterate over the permitted locations and return the first matched file. Hmmm... I'm not sure.

What do you think?

[zeelot]

It should probably be a different route and action, can you give me an example of a composer package with media files and where they end up?

[samwilson]

Here're are a couple:

• https://packagist.org/packages/twitter/bootstrap has files in /vendor/twitter/bootstrap/dist/
• https://packagist.org/packages/fanforfun/leaflet-bundle has files in /vendor/fanforfun/leaflet-bundle/Resources/public