Automatic files upload to MySQL database

[jrenzi]

Here is my question.

I'm writing a website for a customer to manage pictures for his pacients, so I need to capture pictures from his digital camera.

The problem is that the users are very novice with computers, so I'm trying to come up with some rutine that automatically uploads the pictures from the camera.

What I need is when a user enters in the "capture" section, my script automatically would have to get the pictures from the camera path (it's a Kodak, so I can access by f:\DCIM\ etc for example) and upload it to the database.

Searching on the net I've read I can access local files with Filesystem Object in Javascript, but I need a way to upload automatically.

Does anyone know how to do this? Maybe with ajax, I don't know. As server language of course I'm using PHP.

Thanks in advance

Javier

[jrenzi]

Anyone please?

[n_wattam]

have you thought about maybe another simply idea. Let them send the pictures to an email address and then use a parser to extract the image from the email and auto upload/resize/watermark etc from that point.

[jrenzi]

No, it has to be simple for the user.

It doesn't matter if it's hard to code, the user only has to plug his camera and the web has to suck the pictures.

I've already found that with Filesystem Object in Javascript I can do whatever I want with the files.

I just need the code that connects this javascript "script" with the server part to upload the files.

Maybe with ajax, but I've never tried it and couldn't find anything in the net.

[jrenzi]

Please, I need help as soon as posible!!!