Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Uri Guttman
> "AB" == Alex Brelsfoard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> Sounds like a neat idea. But I am very inexperienced in TK. Can you AB> point me to a good place online to do some studying? dunno any online places but the docs for perl/tk aren't bad and o'reilly's book mastering perl/tk is

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:20:38PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > browsers were never designed to do much and they are overloaded to the max > now. classic marketplace beating out quality (in terms of the > http/browser platform for all things). Amen! Truer words were never spoken. You would not

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Sounds like a neat idea. But I am very inexperienced in TK. Can you point me to a good place online to do some studying? --Alex >> "AB" == Alex Brelsfoard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AB> I have an online photo album that all my friends and family use to > AB> share photos and

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Uri Guttman
> "AB" == Alex Brelsfoard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> I have an online photo album that all my friends and family use to AB> share photos and comments on these photos with each other. It's AB> fairly robust, and was [EMAIL PROTECTED] fun to create. But that is the AB> ultimate

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
I have an online photo album that all my friends and family use to share photos and comments on these photos with each other. It's fairly robust, and was [EMAIL PROTECTED] fun to create. But that is the ultimate destination for her pictures. She has a digital camera and might be able to swing

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread David Meyers
Alex Brelsfoard wrote: Yeah, I'm not too excited about creating a connection to a user's desktop to browse it either. But since there's no easy way to send multiple file addresses through html I'm running out of options. One of the online photo processors (ofofo maybe?) used to have a java

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks all for the great feedback. Yeah, I think the main problem is that I am trying to access remote files from a server-side program, and this is a security violation (rightfully so). So this means (to do this the perfect beautiful way) I will need to create a module to my perl app to be sent

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Yeah, I'm not too excited about creating a connection to a user's desktop to browse it either. But since there's no easy way to send multiple file addresses through html I'm running out of options. And, yeah (you'll love this), my mother uses a Mac. And I was hoping to make this whole procedure

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wow, well it's good to see we're all on the same page. Three replies all > suggesting the same option.. zipped files. Yeah here's the trick. > I'm trying to make this process easier for my mother, not myself. So in > the end, this is

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:41:36PM -0800, joe wrote: > php does multiple file uploads; I've seen it work but haven't looked at > how it manages it. More here: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.multiple.php The link shows an example of "multiple file uploads" where each file

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Daniel Allen
To add to the list of options: There is a module for Apache known as mod_dav that implements Web Folders (DAV). DAV is very nicely supported on Windows and Mac (less well on Linux) and will let you treat a server space as a folder; file transfers are done via HTTP GET and PUT. However,

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Tom Metro
James Linden Rose, III wrote: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.multiple.php It seems to be showing PHP's ability to parse multiple files in the upload, but not now you get multiple files into the HTML form code in the first place. Agreed. I don't know PHP but the code snippet

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Sean Quinlan
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:31, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > Wow, well it's good to see we're all on the same page. Three replies all > suggesting the same option.. zipped files. Yeah here's the trick. > I'm trying to make this process easier for my mother, not myself. So in > the end, this

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread James Linden Rose, III
Maybe I'm dead wrong, but it looks to me as though that tip isn't going to help. It seems to be showing PHP's ability to parse multiple files in the upload, but not now you get multiple files into the HTML form code in the first place. On Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004, at 17:41 US/Eastern, joe wrote:

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread joe
php does multiple file uploads; I've seen it work but haven't looked at how it manages it. More here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.multiple.php On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:31:22 -0600 (CST), "Alex Brelsfoard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Wow, well it's good to see we're all on the

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Wow, well it's good to see we're all on the same page. Three replies all suggesting the same option.. zipped files. Yeah here's the trick. I'm trying to make this process easier for my mother, not myself. So in the end, this is adding another layer... So, if I don't want to do the

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 04.12.07 14:13 -0600 ) Alex Brelsfoard: > But say I want to upload all of the pictures from a wedding or > something. zip them up into one file. [pre-process] i don't think the browser file selection controls are anywhere near as flexible as local graphical file selection controls. i

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Well, basically, I'm just trying to do a batch upload for my photo album. I already have it setup so that I can upload one picture at a time. But say I want to upload all of the pictures from a wedding or something. They all belong to the same album, have the same date, same photographer, and

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Tom Metro
Alex Brelsfoard wrote: I would like to create a form (html) that...give[s] the user an option to select a directory from their hard drive. Much like the option, only with this I want to select a directory. I think you're out of luck. You could always have a simple text box to allow the user to

[Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Howdy all. I have a quick (hopefully) and easy (hopefully) question you might be able to help me with. I would like to create a form (html) that takes in a little bit of info. Most importantly I want it to give the user an option to select a directory from their hard drive. Much like the