Save autogenerated name after scanning

THUNDER44

Hello,
I have to scan an image and save the image with a php-generated name. How is it possible to give a php-generated name?

Thanks in advance

DanielLiljeberg

Well... You just create a function to do it for you.

Something like this?:
(Based on port of mailmans random password)

// Create a random name
function MakeRandomString($length=6, $type='gif')
{
$vowels = array ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u');
$consonants = array ('b', 'c', 'd', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'k', 'm', 'n','p', 'r', 's', 't', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'z');
$syllables = array ();
$name = '';
foreach ($vowels as $v)
{
foreach ($consonants as $c)
{

array_push($syllables,"$c$v");

array_push($_syllables,"$v$c");
}
}

for ( $i=0;$i<=($length/2);$i++)        $name=$name.$_syllables[array_rand($_syllables) ];

return ($name. '.' . $type);

}

Or something that creates a name that is to your liking.

Weedpacket

By creating a name and saving the file with that name? 😕 Are you after something like [man]uniqid[/man]?

DanielLiljeberg

Weedpacket wrote:
By creating a name and saving the file with that name? 😕

lol 😃

He probably had no idea how to generate a string. That was probably the issue... I'm guessing here 😛

THUNDER44

Yes, I am after unique id. The trouble that i have with the scanner is that it will prompt the user to enter a name rather than the php program which is running to automatically create a uniqueid. I need some function to invoke the scanner to give the naming facilty not to the user but to the php program

DanielLiljeberg

So you are looking for a php-script that communicates with the scanner? I guess that's a no go... I have not heard of any such function/script anyway. The scanners behaviour is controlled by it's drivers. Hard for a serverside phpfunction to override that 😛

leatherback

But of course, you could scan theh images, place them in an insert folder, and then run a PhP script that sorts through the images, and saves them with unique names, and stores info about them in a dbase. I am guesssing you want to use the script to auto-catalogue?

DanielLiljeberg

leatherback wrote:
But of course, you could scan theh images, place them in an insert folder, and then run a PhP script that sorts through the images, and saves them with unique names, and stores info about them in a dbase. I am guesssing you want to use the script to auto-catalogue?

The way I understand it is that he wanted a script that acctivates a users scanner and scans an image and saves it. Without the user having to do the scanning and uploading. But I could have missunderstood.

leatherback

DanielLiljeberg wrote:
The way I understand it is that he wanted a script that acctivates a users scanner and scans an image and saves it. Without the user having to do the scanning and uploading. But I could have missunderstood.

You are right. But as mentioned earlier in the thread: THat is not possible, without very fancy interface scripting. SO I offered solution "C", which thinks outside the framework provided, since it seemed that the framework was about to come crashing down.
The way from a to b often goes through C. I am and ecolo-G-ist