photo upload applet - PLEASE help kind people!

[ScaryEders]

hi,

Being in the proccess of designing a photo sharing website, I would like some advice on how to aquire an easy upload tool.

I am aware that html has its own simple file upload capabilities (with a "browse..." button) but this is not good enough for the users of my site - they need to be able to select more than one image for upload at a time. Yahoo and MSN groups both provide such tools for their users to upload images, though I am not sure what technology is behind these.

http://www.villagephotos.com

however, is one site that uses a java applet to upload multiple images, an idea that i feel could be perfect for the website i'm creating. However, as i have little experience of java programming, creating such an applet myslef seems like a very daunting task.

Does anyone know where i might be able to aquire such an applet for use on my site? (or know of some other solution) I am willing to pay a small ammount, but as the site will be non-profit making, free would be best! Unobtrusive adds within the applet are acceptable.

must have features:
* only recognised web image formats uploadable (jpg/gif/png)
* automatic resizing of overly large images (to save time and bandwith)
* whole folders selectable
* some way of knowing what proportion of the photos have uploded (e.g. progress bar)

desirable but less important features:
* thumbnails so users can see which images they are uploading
* rotate 90 degrees right/left
* caption feature, so each photo can be named

Many thanks,

- ed

 

[prosper]

I think only applet cannot do the work of upload.
You need cgi, php, jsp, Java Servlet or asp running at server to do the upload work.

There is a servlet for uploading at the link

http://www.oop-reserch.com/cross_servlet.html

 

[flumpy]

... you could contact the upload JSP or any other language uploader script with the java applet and pass the file to it.

But technically, Java applets work client side and have to do all the stuff any other client side app would have to do.

 

[stefanwagner]

The apache-commons api might include some ftp-functionality.
Imageformats: see FileFilter
whole folders: too FileFilter


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[ScaryEders]

Thanks to those who replied!

prosper and flumpy . . . good point. I did not realise java itself had no direct upload capabilities. stefan . . . thanks, but ftp is not really wht i'm after.

I've found juploader is just what i need!

http://jupload.biz/

you can use the java applet to select multiple files and preview the images, and then send the files via CGI to a php file.

- ed