update by email

Will there be anyway to update the gallery by email?
If I used my mobile phone and sent a picture with some text from it?
This should be a great feature for G2, as you can imagine, if you ve read around these days, so many moblogs are poping up and the next version of movable type will have its own gallery, which could be bad news for Gallery. I hope you guys keep up with the features.
Good luck!
Paul

What you'd want is for Gallery to automatically add any photos added to a specific directory. Then leave it as a problem for the user to get the images there. And there are plenty of non-php ways to populate that directory.

[actually, if it was an automated process, none of it has to be in PHP]

Joan, would you be so kind and expend a bit on your previous message? I would love details. A friend of mine is working on it but finds it a bit hard cos there is no API for Gallery1 (as in, we didn t find one) and if you had any ideas of how to proceed, that would help a great deal. :wink:
cheers

Well, once you've got the file in a directory, you can call the following function for each file, then delete it.

And look at imap stuff on php.net for ways of getting it from your email. Or find a non-php script that does that, and it can write the files while the php script reads them.

(needs some work, especially the name and tag stuff)
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>
function log_image($file)
{
$log = new Album();
$err=$log->load("moblog");
if (!$err) {
return;
}
// quick hack: get $tag and $name code from save_photos.php
$tag = "jpg";
$name = "image";
$caption = "Emailed from my mobile at ".date("M d, Y H:i T", time());
$err = $log->addPhoto($file, $tag, $name, $caption);
$log->save();
return;
}
</TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

Well, you'd never need an imap daemon, unless you were setting up a mailserver.

If you wanted to do the whole thing in PHP, here's another code fragment to get you started.
[it was actually part of an email gateway to phpBB, which worked but was never rolled out, but it shows you the principle of getting using php to read email]
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>
$mbox = imap_open ($server, $username, $password);

$num_msgs=imap_num_msg($mbox);
print "<p>num $num_msgs<p>";
for ($msg_count=1; $msg_count <= $num_msgs; $msg_count++)
{
$headers = explode("
", imap_fetchheader ($mbox, $msg_count));
foreach ($headers as $header_build)
{
$header_build = preg_replace("/:s/", ":", $header_build);
if (preg_match("/:/", $header_build))
{
$vars = preg_split("/:/", $header_build, 2);
if ($vars[1])
{
chop($header[trim($vars[0])] = trim($vars[1]));
}
}
}
$body = imap_fetchbody ($mbox, $msg_count, "1");
$attachments=false;
$structure = imap_fetchstructure ($mbox, $msg_count);
if ($structure.parts > 1)
{
$attachments=true;
}

if (emailToDB($header, $body, $attachments))
{
imap_delete($mbox, $msg_count);
}
}
imap_close($mbox);
</TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

I guess I don't understand the full process but why can't gallery POP a specific account using a PHP Script > look for emails that have the right subject header > strip and upload the images that it finds are new & tag the processed ones so it doesn't upload an already processed image?

I guess poping an existing mail box isn't a fuction of php but seems that it should be able to and pass the credentials as needed even for a remote mail server. Just a thought.

Let me know when and if there is ever an easy fix. kinda makes it an easy mogallery setup like textamerica uses. I dont like theirs though!!! because its not on my server!!