[crazydiamond]

Hi,

I have absolutely no idea how to program PHP or ASP but have a question. I own and maintain a website for a group of pilots who want to post pictures of thier days out/trips etc. I am finding it extremely labour intensive to keep cropping, resizing and editing pictures using photoshop then sitting for ages uploading them.

What I am looking for is something I can install on my server that will allow these people to resize, crop add captions etc to their OWN pictures and UPLOAD them into a page on the website itself without any intervention from myself. Is this possible.? Also, the pictures would need to be displayed as a slideshow that is automated or user defined. Again, is this possible. Does anyone here know of a script suitable that can be used for my purposes?

Thanks in advance.

[nova912]

I don't think this can be done with php alone, or even with an internet application w/o some major innovation.

[crazydiamond]

Hmmm....How do websites use a "browse" button then to search your computer for pictures etc that you would want to upload, then when you click "upload" hey presto the pictures arrive on their site? I ve always wondered how they do this.

[nova912]

Originally Posted by crazydiamond

Hmmm....How do websites use a "browse" button then to search your computer for pictures etc that you would want to upload, then when you click "upload" hey presto the pictures arrive on their site? I ve always wondered how they do this.

This is done by uploading a file via web POST request, labeling the file and linking to the file usually with a database. In terms of the features you want of customer cropping over the web... i have not seen it done... yet.

[End User]

Originally Posted by crazydiamond

What I am looking for is something I can install on my server that will allow these people to resize, crop add captions etc to their OWN pictures and UPLOAD them into a page on the website itself without any intervention from myself. Is this possible.? Also, the pictures would need to be displayed as a slideshow that is automated or user defined. Again, is this possible. Does anyone here know of a script suitable that can be used for my purposes?

Yes, this can be done with PHP and the GD module (or Imagemagick). Al you need is a simple upload script and and a little code to get the image size and transform it. Captions could also be added right into the image if you wanted to do that.

[crazydiamond]

Cool, so where can I get hold of this and how would I go about installing it, what would I need in terms of folders etc on my server. Also, where would I come across the upload script? Any help gratefully recieved as I only program HTML, wouldnt have a clue with PHP....

Aslo, assuming that I only want my people to just upload and not worry about resizing, how do I go about this POST feature?

[End User]

Originally Posted by crazydiamond

Cool, so where can I get hold of this and how would I go about installing it, what would I need in terms of folders etc on my server.

Unfortunately, you could write a book on those three questions alone. It's a bit beyond the scope of this forum to explain this in detail, so I'd suggest 1) learning a little PHP, 2) getting some PHP reference books, and 3) enlisting the help of a friend who knows PHP.