[NTLUG:Discuss] Uploading to a web site.

[Richard Geoffrion]

steve wrote:
> brian at pongonova.net wrote:
>   
>> Steve--
>>
>> Personally, after test-driving several different PHP-based galleries,
>> I settled on Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com). If you want to roll
>> your own, you'll have to address a number of issues, such as
>> authentication, session management, server security, etc.  Life's too
>> short to continually reinvent the wheel...
>>     
>
> The trouble here is that I really do need to do something like that.
>
> I'll be able to restrict access to the web page to only people I trust
> so I'm not too worried about all of those tricky issues.
>
> But I need to take the uploaded photos and do stuff to them - so an
> off-the-shelf gallery or Wiki or whatever isn't a solution.
>
> I just need to understand the basic priciples of how the heck this
> trick is pulled.
>
>   
What if you ran an FTP service and allowed the users to access,  
ftp://user@ftphost.domainname.tld/path-to-uploads

The users could just deposit the files in a directory and you could do 
your manipulation.

It sounds like all you want to do is get the files to your system.  By 
the way, if your clients are running a Microsoft operating system, there 
is a Microsoft feature called WEB FOLDERS on the client end that makes 
your ftp site look just like a directory to the clients.  If your 
Microsoft clients are able copy files from one folder to another, they 
should be well able to copy files to your ftp/web-folder.

-- 
Richard