mobile to website

[yousaf931]

Hello,

What I would like to do is sent pictures from your cell phone to the site. Is this possible?

Any help material and suggestions any comment would be apperciated.

Cheers.

[yelvington]

Most phones can email photos as file attachments, and some MMS gateways to email conversions automatically, so that part should be easy.

Jesse Mullan has written a Perl script that can be invoked by a mail handler and posts directly into Gallery, which is PHP-based. Go to
http://jpmullan.com/galleryupdates/
and look for galleryadd.pl, referenced toward the bottom.

I configured a special email account to pipe the incoming mail to a shell script. (You also could rig procmail to pipe mail to the shell script based on a magic key you put in the subject line.)

My script runs ripmime to detach the image, then invokes galleryadd.pl to do the actual posting.

#!/bin/bash

requires directories ~/nokia and ~/photoarchive

requires a special user account

requires ripmime

.forward file should contain

| ~/phone2gallery

email photos from Nokia 3650 to [e-mail]

#

config

user="someGALLERYuser";
password="somepassword";
gallery="http://some.domain/gallery/"
album="albumname";

code

cd ~/nokia;
/usr/local/bin/ripmime --paranoid --no-nameless -i -;
/usr/local/bin/galleryadd.pl -l $gallery -a $album -u $user -p $password .jpg;
mv .jpg ../photoarchive/

[jtamasaf]

I have the same problem but with a pocket PC.

The html tag

input type="file"

doesn´t work in my pocket pc and I suppose it is because the file system is not the same as the PC one.

anyone has a solution?

I have been looking for a solution for hours and I have found nothing.

[yelvington]

Interesting ... what do you actually see when you encounter a FILE type input in a form with the Pocket PC? Does it just ignore it?

The Nokia platform supports XHTML Mobile Profile, and Nokia's documentation (below) says file inputs are supposed to be supported.

However, all I see on my Nokia 3650 using its XHTML Mobile Profile browser is an editable text field -- not a file selector, so I don't know how I'm supposed to provide a path to an uploadable file. So, for the time being, I'll stick to MMS / SMTP with file attachments.

Here's the Nokia documentation (excerpt)

3.5 File Upload

The browser supports uploading content, such as images, from the device to the Web server. Content is sent from a device to the server as a Multipart Message; the server-side implementation of the content upload is similar to the HTTP upload mechanism for standard Internet browsers. The process of implementing the upload mechanism in the server side is:

1. An XHTML page with a <form> element is created. Inside the <form> element there are at least <input type=file> and <input type=submit> elements. The page is deployed to the Web server.

2. When the page is opened with the terminal browser, the user can select the content to upload.

3. After the content has been selected and the Submit button has been activated, the form is posted to the URL defined in the form. Selected content is part of this Multipart Message.

4. On the server side, the Multipart Message is parsed with an application (written with, for example, CGI, PHP, ASP, JSP, or Java Servlet) and content can be saved to the file system of the service provider's server.

[jtamasaf]

Thanks yelvington.

Yes, the pocket pc ignore the tag. Nothing appears on the screen. It doesn´t convert it into a text field. It just ignores the tag and show the rest of the form.

I will keep on looking for a solution. If I find anything interesting I will send you.

[yousaf931]

hi,

thanks alot for the help. I would like to ask that if u can have this done in PHP buz i am not familar with Perl.

Cheers,
yousaf FAYYAZ.