images - help

[Binka]

OK so i've been wooshing around the net for months, looking for a solution, I'm developing an intranet and need to upload images to the filemaker server from a web page, can anyone tell me is this function totally impossible, or am I just not looking hard enough!!

thanks

me (newbe) al

[Steve T.]

Howdy, B! File uploads/downloads is not my forte so other folks may need to correct me, but I thought FileMaker is somewhat different from other databases in this regard and AFAIK is not used for storing files, per se, as MySQL or PostgreSQL would and FM is generally not designed for uploads/downloads. Getting the files uploaded to the server shouldn't be too hard using something like PHP, though, and you could store the PATHS to those files in FM, but I do not think you can store the files INSIDE a FileMaker database. FM has "container" fields that can store images, but they lose their independent file status. I think FM7 has increased the number of filetypes and formats FM can handle, but since I don't have FM7, I cannot say much else about it.

If you are developing an image server system, several folks in the forums have done it with FM in conjunction with other technologies although I think they used the paths method... I remember reading about some various scenarios in the posts.

--ST

[JLanclos]

This may help, but i have never used it. I'm experimenting with fx.php right now. http://www.fmwebschool.com/fmimage.htm

--Jon