Image Gallery Uploads
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:47 pm
Hi,
I have an interestig idea/problem.
I have written a gallery application which offer the ability to upload several images at once, however, I used it myself to try and upload a gallery of a trip to scotland I'd had and soon face how annoying the application is when you have 100's of pictures to upload.
So I wrote a script that scanned a directory on the webserver for images that had not been stored in the database yet, with the plan that I could upload, via ftp, to a directory on the server. This works great for me. However, I'd like to take it to the next step....
I admin a server for my webcms sites and do not offer ftp access to these as ALL access is through a web interface, but I like the advantages of ftp for the upload of images... This got me thinking, I started wondering if it was possible to create some sort of temporary username and directory that allowed the user to click a button and then for them to upload their images via ftp, then process images and remove acess...
So, my question... Does anyone know where I would start? Has anyone done anything similar? Is there anything hat I should be aware of?
I have an interestig idea/problem.
I have written a gallery application which offer the ability to upload several images at once, however, I used it myself to try and upload a gallery of a trip to scotland I'd had and soon face how annoying the application is when you have 100's of pictures to upload.
So I wrote a script that scanned a directory on the webserver for images that had not been stored in the database yet, with the plan that I could upload, via ftp, to a directory on the server. This works great for me. However, I'd like to take it to the next step....
I admin a server for my webcms sites and do not offer ftp access to these as ALL access is through a web interface, but I like the advantages of ftp for the upload of images... This got me thinking, I started wondering if it was possible to create some sort of temporary username and directory that allowed the user to click a button and then for them to upload their images via ftp, then process images and remove acess...
So, my question... Does anyone know where I would start? Has anyone done anything similar? Is there anything hat I should be aware of?