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Detecting USB Device

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:30 am
by RobbieL
I'm looking at doing a little web project in PHP, and a small part of it will be detecting when a USB device has been inserted into the users machine. Once detected, I would like to check to see if there are any files with the extension MP3 and offer the user the ability to upload these files to a server.

Now I know this can't be done with PHP, so I went around looking for technologies that maybe able to achieve this. Doing a little light reading, it looked as though Java (using a Java Applet?), ASP .NET and Adobe AIR maybe in the right area.

I have no experience whatsoever with Java, .NET or Adobe AIR so can't really determine if they can do what I'm looking for. Does anyone have any experience with them, and be able to say if the above is at all possible?


Thanks.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:05 am
by Kieran Huggins
If you have Javascript experience, XULRunner might be the way to go.