[corinb]

Hi

I have a webcam uploading images successfully via ftp to a folder on a website, however these images are uploaded with different file names each time depending on the time and date of the upload in the format P_2009-05-07_19-07-13_542.jpg resulting in an ever increasing number of images.

I want to link directly to the newest image in the format mysite.com/webcam/image.jpg

So is it possible to have a script which deletes the oldest entries and renames the latest picture to image.jpg ?

I can then set a CRON job to call this script periodically.

Thanks for the help

c

[swiftarf]

My ip cam uploads timestamped images. I only want the latest so I rename all the images in a directory to webcam.jpg. I call it every hour with a cron job -only the first image uploaded after the most recent cron is left. Although this is crude, it works

If you want anything more elaborate you'll have to read the filenames into an array and reverse the array to get the latest file & rename that.

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('.')) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != "." && $file != ".." && preg_match("/jpg$/",$file) && $file !="webcam.jpg") {
rename($file, 'webcam.jpg');
}
}
closedir($handle);
}
?>

Hope this helps