Re: automated upload with PHP

On Mar 29, 8:49 pm, "Aerik" <asyl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 29, 8:29 pm, "Steve Poe" <steve....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



sure, you can script on the client using what is called active
scripting.
its nice and familiar, so you would either
1) have your script one once per day and upload any images not already
uploaded from a set of folders
2) configure explorer so you can right click and select upload image,
your php script would be run in the bvackground with argument such as
c:\path\to\php -r "%1"
and it would do the rest.
Why not use FTP if you are scripting this, as it will be nice and
robust and can interact is a predicatable way with your fileserver -
providing it can have an ftp serve running on it, like filezilla
server.

oops I should have added, that if you have a few computers you need to
install this on you could use NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install
System)http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Pagetowrapup everything
including the script that makes the right click functionality between
tiffs and the php script, and distribute that.

Thanks for your help (and the link). I am not familar with
implementing
FTP through PHP. It's mainly PHP with HTML forms. The PHP app runs on
a
Linux box (hopefully this does not matter) and I believe it also has
ftp access. At this point, there will only be one computer that the
PHP application will need to automatically load
the TIF image. The file will be saved in a directory called xrays off
of the C:\
drive.

Steve

Hi Steve -
Would it suit your requirement to hard code the path into the file
upload box? The user still has to click "upload" but will not have to
find the file each time.

Aerik

Aerik,

Hard-coding would solve this since the file name would be
the same each time, I could change the name of the
button "process image" instead of upload but it would still
grab the image locally. How would you hard-code the location?

In my example, the xray will be stored in c:\xrays_images and the file
will be called xray.tif.

Thanks for the feedback.

Steve

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