Home› General support

Zenphoto like Locr (Mobile upload to gallery)

dquelhas Member
in General support
Hi guys,

My problem is that I really like Zenphoto simplicity and use, but I would like to have apps to upload from Mobiles like Shozu and Locr.

I'm pretty new to this, and I have a couple of questions that I would like to ask:
* is it possible to upload photos via mobiles?

If yes:

* is it possible to upload photos via iphones?
* is it possible to upload photos via Windows mobile devices?
* is it possible to upload photos via Symbian mobile devices?

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Dinis

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    I do not have or know any of these mobile devices (believe it or not I actually don't have an mobile phone/device at all..:-)) so I can't tell anything specific. Maybe someone else will have some details.

    Generally, if you can open a normal website with your device, you probably are able to use the admin backend page for uploading (we have a flash upload and a normal single file browser upload). Of course the admin backend is not optimized for displaying on mobile devices.

    Additionally if you can use FTP with your device directly that would possible for uploading, too.

    Maybe that helps?
  • daricec Member
    I was able to setup an FTP location in Shozu and then upload from my mobile phone using Shozu.
  • drucktshirt Member
    tried that with my iphone, didn't work for me. but I must admit that I'm not a programming crack at all so maybe anyone with more knowledge will do it. and if so, please tell me how!
  • TheLizard Member
    This looks like an old topic (bump?) but I am interested in this now. I think ZenPhoto is great! I now have an Android phone, and want to be able to upload photos from it similar to the "Picasa" or Photo Bucket functions.

    FTP is not an option for me (I don't expose FTP on my server at all), but maybe some sort of secure web service (can PHP do that? - I don't even know, I don't do much with PHP). BUT - I am a Java developer and could probably learn to do an Android app. In fact this looks like a great way to learn it.

    Anyone else interested in this? I don't have to use WS, any open API would probably work. I'll do the client if anybody has ideas (other than FTP) for doing uploads. I'd like to be able to support a few of the features, like selecting an album, adding tags, etc.
  • kagutsuchi Member
    A while back, there was a group who working on a GPL Java application to manage Zenphoto. The post on our forums can be found here: http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=6942

    If you were to do something regarding Java, you might be able to get an idea of how they approached this. It's nearly been a year since that application was actively developed, however, so it's uncertain how much of it would still be working as is.

    If you decide to try to do this in Android, be aware that Android's implementation of Java is not exactly the same as standard Java. There's a chance that Android will have its own implementation of HTTP communication. The Android docs are fantastic though, so it may not be too hard to figure out how to get it to work.
Sign In or Register to comment.