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 Posted by shimmyshack on 03/29/07 17:30 
On 29 Mar, 18:25, "shimmyshack" <matt.fa...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 29 Mar, 17:38, "Steve Poe" <steve....@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> 
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> > I work for an animal hospital trying to use PHP to store an animal's 
> > dental x-rays to a file server. 
> 
> > I can browse for the xray on the local desktop computer then click 
> > "Upload  Image". This works fine. The doctors want fewer steps to 
> > follow. So, it was asked if I can configure the browser to load/submit 
> > the image 'xray.tif' each time they click "Upload Image" instead of 
> > the doctor/animal technician having to look for for dental x-ray 
> > image. 
> 
> > Does PHP support such a feature to pull/load a file of the client's 
> > computer? My three PHP books aren't helping, but I am probably looking 
> > in the wrong direction. 
> 
> > Thanks. 
> 
> > Steve 
> 
> sure, you can script on the client using what is called active 
> scripting. 
> its nice and familiar, so you would either 
> 1) have your script one once per day and upload any images not already 
> uploaded from a set of folders 
> 2) configure explorer so you can right click and select upload image, 
> your php script would be run in the bvackground with argument such as 
> c:\path\to\php -r "%1" 
> and it would do the rest. 
> Why not use FTP if you are scripting this, as it will be nice and 
> robust and can interact is a predicatable way with your fileserver - 
> providing it can have an ftp serve running on it, like filezilla 
> server. 
 
oops I should have added, that if you have a few computers you need to 
install this on you could use NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install 
System) http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page to wrap up everything 
including the script that makes the right click functionality between 
tiffs and the php script, and distribute that.
 
  
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