Site visitors upload images for processing

I'm looking for a method that will allow a site visitor (customer) to 
complete a form and upload (or cause it to go by email) an image to a 
client that wants to provide a service touching up photos. The image is 
not to be seen by the public.

The submission would be in a Form format, where visitor (customer) would 
submit name, desired effect for the image (cropping, remove the redeye, 
get rid of distracting background...), maybe credit card number.

Sort of like FormMail, which I know how to use, but including the image 
sending capability.  The volume will be small, and while it could be a 
cgi, don't want anything more complicated than that.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi Jim -
there are a number of ways to do something like this - do you want to 
store the submitted info in a database, or just send it via email?

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"Jim Alexander" <nothere@noway.com> wrote in message 
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> I'm looking for a method that will allow a site visitor (customer) to 
> complete a form and upload (or cause it to go by email) an image to a 
> client that wants to provide a service touching up photos. The image 
> is not to be seen by the public.
>
> The submission would be in a Form format, where visitor (customer) 
> would submit name, desired effect for the image (cropping, remove the 
> redeye, get rid of distracting background...), maybe credit card 
> number.
>
> Sort of like FormMail, which I know how to use, but including the 
> image sending capability.  The volume will be small, and while it 
> could be a cgi, don't want anything more complicated than that.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Jim 

The client is actually new to even having a computer in their shop, and 
really testing the waters to see how much business they may generate 
with this sideline,  so anything like a database is not in the cards. I 
had considered having them use one of the yousendit.com services, but 
all they want is a simple page on their small site on which the 
occasional customer can submit an image for editing. If it arrives to 
them by email, that's fine, and probably the easiest for them to handle.

Jim

Michael Evangelista wrote:
> Hi Jim -
> there are a number of ways to do something like this - do you want to 
> store the submitted info in a database, or just send it via email?

how about a php formmailer, with a file attachment field?
The other info you want to collect would just be text fields in the 
form.

I have something like that on my old-old site here
http://www.suwebs.com/html/contact.html

this whole site is straight html, with a single php file on the server 
to process the form.. go ahead and try it if you want...



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"Jim Alexander" <nothere@noway.com> wrote in message 
news:cljiMtaLHHA.332@ns1.xroubaix.com...
> The client is actually new to even having a computer in their shop, 
> and really testing the waters to see how much business they may 
> generate with this sideline,  so anything like a database is not in 
> the cards. I had considered having them use one of the yousendit.com 
> services, but all they want is a simple page on their small site on 
> which the occasional customer can submit an image for editing. If it 
> arrives to them by email, that's fine, and probably the easiest for 
> them to handle.
>
> Jim
>
> Michael Evangelista wrote:
>> Hi Jim -
>> there are a number of ways to do something like this - do you want to 
>> store the submitted info in a database, or just send it via email?
>> 

Someone pointed to the free php form tool "phorm" in another thread
(see 
http://php-form.net/). That tool has a nice form-based file upload facility, 
but that feature is only provided if you register it ($10).

I have tried it, and it seems pretty good. It does take a bit of trial and 
error to get everything set the way you want. It is what I am switching to 
when users need to upload files.

Bill


"Jim Alexander" <nothere@noway.com> wrote in message 
news:E54eHqTLHHA.1344@ns1.xroubaix.com...
> I'm looking for a method that will allow a site visitor (customer) to 
> complete a form and upload (or cause it to go by email) an image to a 
> client that wants to provide a service touching up photos. The image is 
> not to be seen by the public.
>
> The submission would be in a Form format, where visitor (customer) would 
> submit name, desired effect for the image (cropping, remove the redeye, 
> get rid of distracting background...), maybe credit card number.
>
> Sort of like FormMail, which I know how to use, but including the image 
> sending capability.  The volume will be small, and while it could be a 
> cgi, don't want anything more complicated than that.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Jim