how can I let users upload to my site?
Hi I am building a site which is for artists to display thier work, each artist has thier own page which is set out in tables and displays 7 images of thier work.
What I would like to do is to be able for them to change these images at any time without having to go throu me or have to use complicated third party apps.
Any ideas???????
Busy posted this at 03:03 — 29th November 2004.
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A database (to store the details) and HTML forms (to upload from) is all you need
karmaman posted this at 09:39 — 30th November 2004.
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cheers busy is there some where I can learn more about this cos I am sure its not as simple as it sounds?
Busy posted this at 21:24 — 30th November 2004.
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Most hosts don't allow text based databases so you need to find out what your host has on offer - ASP, Coldfusion, PHP etc and the databases MySQL, MSSQL etc
If your host allows PHP/MySQL places like hotscripts.com offers lots of ready made scripts or there are plenty of tutorial sites out there - depending on the (server side) language your host supports.
The script itself, is something like
get members to register
when signed in,
- allow to upload/delete images
- allow to order images
You may not (but you never know) find a script that meets all your needs, i.e. ordering the images, but shouldn't be hard to adjust somethign to suit.
Letus know what your host supports and we should be able to help you some more
andy206uk posted this at 11:55 — 1st December 2004.
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Seriously? I've never come across a host that doesn't allow the use of flat file databases. I mean... how can they stop you reading a text file? It's one of the basics of programming it would be daft to prevent it!
Andy
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 01:38 — 2nd December 2004.
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They monitor resource usage. Not only to flatfiles get large, but they can take a lot of proc time to handle. This doesn't go unnoticed. I've known one host to make a backup of the db, delete the original and email the web site owner... I guess other hosts work similarly ?
Busy posted this at 22:43 — 1st December 2004.
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It's a resource hog, most web hosts have a mention in their FAQ's saying no text based databases.
reading and writing to a file is different to running a site from file/s
karmaman posted this at 09:54 — 7th December 2004.
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Hi there my host offers php4 I dont know if this is usefull or not? as I am not familiar with php yet but I feel I am about to learn.
I would appreciate any further advice anyone can offer.
Busy posted this at 10:45 — 7th December 2004.
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Do you currently use phpnuke, phpbb, or anything like that on your site?
did you try hotscripts.com ?
timjpriebe posted this at 13:17 — 10th December 2004.
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I've had good experiences with Gallery. (http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index) It is 3rd party software, but once you've configured it, it's pretty straight forward.
Not sure if it would do exactly what you want to do, but it could at least come close. If you integrated it into something like PHP Nuke, it would be able to do that. I've done that on coolcollecting.com, though I don't let people have their own pages, just their own sections in Gallery.
Tim
http://www.tandswebdesign.com
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