Sending images

[rastkocvetkovic]

Regards!

With a little bit of help of our Tek-tips forums I've managed to transfer data from one server to another. Now I'm trying to transfer images - from server1.com to server2.com.
I already have HTML forms (input="file&quot that can upload the picture to server2.com, but I want this to be done automatically.
Therefore I've tried JAVASCRIPT:
I tried to manually javascript the values of this file-input-types - like <input name=&quot;image[]&quot; type=&quot;file&quot; value=&quot;<?=$path_to_image[$i]?>> and hide them into an invisible layer in <form><invisible layer><submit button></form>, but the the 'type=&quot;file&quot;' can't get values with 'value=&quot;something&quot;'... (eg. 'value=&quot;c:\something.jpg&quot;')

Should I try BINARY TRANSMISSION with fopen and fclose?
I surely don't want to use FTP due to security risks (password will be shown in the code).

Thank you for your tips on this.

 

[sleipnir214]

Is FTP enabled in your installation of PHP?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ftp.php

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TANSTAAFL!

 

[rastkocvetkovic]

FTP is enabled, yes.
But the password would exist in the PHP code, wouldn't it. That's a huge problem, because the directories in which files will be uploaded to, will be created dinamically - also with PHP. Therefore I think, I couldn't set a FTP access just for those directorie due to the fact I even don't know how will they be named. Maybe there's a possibility of excluding all other files or even setting permissions for upload during dinamical creation of them, but I'm indeed a stranger to linux+apache security settings and I don't know how to do that. Help would be needed there, thank you!

 

[sleipnir214]

I'm not getting a clear picture of what you're trying to do.

Are you trying to keep the directory trees of the two servers syncronized as users upload files? ______________________________________________________________________
TANSTAAFL!

 

[rastkocvetkovic]

Hmm, I'll try to describe the situation directly as I can.

I'm making webpages for local restaurants, and therefore every restaurant that subscribes to our service, receives a web page of tipe masterserver.com/restaurants_name/. A people who are selling the service, have notebooks running Apache:

http://localhost/restaurants_name/photos/,

in which .jpg photos are stored.
After the seller has returned to office, he clicks upload all restaurant/photos and a script should create the same directories on the master server (eg.

http://masterserver.com/restaurants_name/)

and copy all new photos into their photos directory.

Just a note: in

http://masterserver.com/.com/restaurants_name/

a simple file named index.php with $restaurants_id is created which then manages content from the database. (That already works).

Now, the problem is that the seller could have access to root of the

http://WWW server

(in which vital web-pages are stored), if he knew FTP username and password, which is in the PHP source, therefore I don't want the script to use FTP access.

I hope the situation is much clearer now.