I mean that You can save files to HDD now without using server side script
with the new flash player 10.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Glen Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can't save an image from Flash without a server side script...
>
> Mario's example sends an image to the server, then uses FileReference to
> download it, or something similar. If you want to store the image data, you
> would need to have 2 scripts - one to format it nicely and then put it in
> the database - Mario's script saves to a temporary file, you need to save
> the data to your DB here and get the id back. The other one which takes in
> an ID of the data in the database and then echoes out headers and the data
> which means your browser / Flash will see an image.
>
> Mario's example PHP script is pretty chunky and not very easy to see
> where you would split the two bits of functionality, but instead of writing
> a temporary image file, you would store your data in a database and return
> the mysql_insert_id() to Flash, or similar.
>
> Then you can use this ID to retrieve the image using a second script.
> Provided you have encoded your JPG nicely, you can splurge it out - here
> are some searches that may help, but the basic principle is that you can do
> something like this:
>
> <?php
> ob_start();
> $error = false;
> $data = null;
> //You would need to write these functions the ob_start & ob_end stops
> you getting errors...
> $id = sanitizeUserInput($_REQUEST['imageid']); // should return a
> nice number for your database ID, or FALSE if you have a problem
> if(FALSE === $id) {
> $error = true;
> } else {
> $data = readDataFromDB($id); //should output your data as an
> entire JPEG file or return FALSE if you have a problem.
> }
> if(FALSE === $data) {
> $error = true;
> }
> ob_end_clean();
> if(false == $error) {
> header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
> echo $data;
> } else {
> header(HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
> }
> exit();
> ?>
>
> Some searches that might help you find some examples...
>
>
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=php+echo+image+from+database&btnG=Google+Search&meta=<
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=php+echo+image+from+database&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
> >
>
>
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=php+read+image+from+database+blob&spell=1<
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=php+read+image+from+database+blob&spell=1
> >
>
> Hope this helps a bit - it's a long time since I did any image
> manipulation in PHP, so apologies if the answers are a bit vague, but there
> are loads of examples out there for this.
>
> Glen
>
>
>
> Omar Fouad wrote:
>
>> I see, all those tutorials shows how to save the image on the Hard Drive
>> (now with flash player is possible to do this without any server side
>> script).
>>
>> But considering my question, what I should be putting in my database row,
>> the byteArray encoded by JPGEncoder?
>> Is there a method into this class that takes the ByteArray from the
>> database
>> back, and translates it into a bitmap to be shown in the swf?
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Glen Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Sorry, I put this in the wrong thread before - here is my 2c
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There are a few examples on the www about sending Bitmap data to the
>>> server Mario's is a good starting point -
>>> http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000572.php Anyway, there are
>>> other
>>> examples about which do compression/decompression on your data so you
>>> could
>>> save it into your DB too..
>>>
>>> Hope this is useful
>>>
>>> Glen
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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