Anyone interested in Mass Uploader?

[srijit]

Tried my hand at writing an uploader program for my site(got more than 5000 pics to upload). First tested by creating a program which could add categories automatically. Due to the wonderfully written code of 4images, it was a breeze. Will attempt to write an prog for mass upload of images in a few days. Program will have all features of the upload page of 4images, configurable through text files mostly. I just wanted to do something for the wonderful community of 4images especially v@no, nicky, chris and jan. Thanks very much guys. Anyway, if anyone is interested please let me know here. 
ps: i did notice other mass uploader scripts here. The purpose of my program is that it runs from my computer, accesses and updates my 4images website, and uploads files. So i can start it up at night and go to sleep.

[Vincent]

with FTP?

sonds good to me!

vincent

[RoadDogg]

yes, sounds very interesting

[srijit]

with FTP?
sonds good to me!
vincent

no, not ftp. via http.  the reason i am doing this program is because

• i have a large collection of images that i have to upload to my site (will take a lot of my time)
• my net speed is very slow, so i dont want to hang around till each image is uploaded

[KurtW]

Hi,

mass uploader via http is top.
Most of my users ask about this option.
In the moment i use a mass uploader with 20 inputfields in the form.
But to select the pic for each inputfield is a lot of work too.

What kind of uploadform is yours?
-Without a lot of seperate inputfields ?
- Only one formfield to select a complete directory?

Sorry for my english...
Thanks

cu
Kurt

[srijit]

ah delayed for one day. my friend is the coder. i just give him ideas to implement. he's out of town and will be back tomorrow. yesterday we wrote a program to insert about 200 categories into my website. i used a text file with the names of the categories in alphabetical order and uploaded almost halfway when power failed. now trying to get it to work, mostly some cookie problem, i suspect. also my site is not a pure 4images site, its a geeklog integration of 4images so logging in is also slightly tricky for me. maybe i will setup a test account somewhere.
First version is intended only for admins who want to put up their images ASAP like me. maybe i will also expand it to users too. 
All setting will be controlled by text files (unless practically impossible). user can fill up text file and program will read it and upload accordingly.
if anyone has ideas pls help me by posting them here. thanks

[Keitaro]

I want to keep informed about the progress of this mod.

[TIMT]

yes, sounds good!

[srijit]

today, we successfully logged in and managed to upload an image using our program. only one image at a time but it will be automated. tomorrow we will look into how to best manage the program using config files. am thinking on the lines of a ftp like queue system. user fills up queue files beforehand, goes to sleep after running the program, all neatly uploaded in the morning 
i require a little help. the program is made with visual basic and calls IE. the popup that loads everytime an image is uploaded is very annoying. could anyone tell me how to completely remove that? i tried removing the highlighted code shown below, but still a popup showed up. doesnt affect the program, but it doesnt look nice 
in admin/images.php

  show_form_footer($lang['add'], $lang['reset'], 2, "", " onClick='showProgress()'");

[srijit]

What kind of uploadform is yours?
-Without a lot of seperate inputfields ?
- Only one formfield to select a complete directory?

my program will have all options that 4images has, ie user can upload

• image / url
• thumbnail / url

• download url
• descriptions

• keywords
• category

Remember at this moment am only making this program for admin, not for regular user.
Minimal requirements are

• image location / url
• image name (taken from above)

• category (set by user in prog)

All other option are not really needed. These are the bare minimum. the program will have all options that 4images itself offers, in all possible combinations. at least i hope it will.... 
One click select of directory is very much possible, as long as the directory does not have too many files (dont know limit, to be safe keep it less than 1000)