I'm curious - if you have a server with a database, why are you concerned about the size of the captions? They will be tiny compared to the pictures.
All in all - this would be trivial with PhoneGap. And hell - if you are ok with more modern Android/iOS, you can skip PhoneGap altogether and just use a regular HTML form. See: http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2013/5/20/Capturing-camerapicture-data-without-PhoneGap On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Matthew Lowrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fellow CF Devs: > > I have a challenge I have decided to take on starting January 2014 and I > need some help to prepare for it. > > What the challenge is, if you're not familiar with 365 Challenges, is > every day you do something. For me, it's sharing a different picture each > day. > > What I would like to do is take a picture with my smartphone (Android), > add a title, some text like a caption about that particular photo, upload > it to some sort of photo site (Picasa's fine) and then it automatically > show up on my website. > > I'm looking for the easiest way to do this without having to do much > except take the picture, enter some text, and that's it. I know I could > have some sort of way to upload it to a db through my hosting company and > then have a timestamp for what day it's to show up on, but I'm trying to > save the image/caption on some free third party site to keep me from > filling up my memory quota if at all possible. > > Anyone have any ideas one how to go about this the best way? Here's sort > of what my idea is currently: > > Android Phone -> Take Picture -> Add Text -> Save to Some Photo App (App > has ability to post on a particular date) -> Shows up on widget on my > website on that particular date. > > My backup plan would be: > Android Phone -> Take Picture -> Add Text -> Use some method / app to > upload information to my db -> Use fancybox photo jquery viewer > > Thanks in advance! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356340 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
