Posted by shimmyshack on 03/29/07 17:25

On 29 Mar, 17:38, "Steve Poe" <steve....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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