Originally Posted by 170Designs I am not quite sure how it works at webshots myself but I know that people simply take pictures on their digital camera, then I think its safe to assume that they connect the camera/memory stick to the computer using USB and then just upload the pictures to the site and it automatically creates an album for them.

well in your first post you made it sound like you wanted the camera to automatically upload to the site.
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Originally Posted by 170Designs Basically, I want to possible for people to simply upload their images from their digital cameras (without having to configure their computers or digital cameras etc.) onto the site and the site automatically creates an album out of them so the person who took the pictures can easily show their friends/family.

but if you're willing to let the user upload the file then it's pretty straight forward.
See: Chapter 38. Handling file uploads

you will probably come accross some problems while creatign this, post your problems here and we can help you out wit those.


you might also want to look into image resizing...although that involves havign certain libraries for PHP installed (assuming we are talking about PHP4 and not PHP5).

you do know that you can upload a zipped file right? PHP can uncompress the archive and place the images where you want it to go.