[PHPwestoz] post early, post often

[Leon Brooks]

On Thursday 10 February 2005 23:32, Samuel Cochran wrote:
> Me four. Although I will try be more active.

Here's a simple technique to staying active: post a PHP snippet once a 
month to amaze or appal the other list denizens. I'll start.

I send the odd photo to http://www.burningwell.org/ so that it might 
have a more useful life. It's tedious selecting and uploading 
individual photos, the upload bogs my link down for a minute while a 
couple of megabytes escape down the wire, and the web interface breaks 
occasionally if I do 3 at once, reliably if I do 4. So...

I have a little script (attached as nugrab.sh with attendant PHP 
template) which sucks all of the photos out of my camera into 
$HOME/photos/YYYYMMDD/ and then indexes them, producing a web page with 
thumbnails, 800x600 "moderate" images and the originals.

I wrote a pair of web pages that run on the server on this machine 
(index.phtml, thumb.phtml, moderate.phtml, addpic.phtml and 
doadd.phtml). I can hit that local web interface instantly, find the 
photo(s) I'm interested in uploading, view the moderates to make sure 
they look OK, key in a description, and submit them to a local 
database. At my later convenience (typically when I walk away from the 
machine at night) I run another PHP script from the command line 
(send_selected.php) which scans the database and sends any unsent 
images.

In the scripts (and bw.sql), $$SYMBOL$$ needs to be hand-edited to 
reflect local conditions.

It's a bit messy and ad-hoc, but has saved me several hours so far.

Cheers; Leon

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