Question

Thanks for reading this.

Ok here’s my situation.

I have a website that let users upload a picture. I want to keep it kinda dumb proof so i tought that users could upload images right from ther digital camera. The problem is that my host have php set to accept a maximum of 2MB file upload. and a picture right out of a Digital Camera is doing about 10MB. How do i get these Jpeg images to shrink in size before getting on the server without making it to complicated for the users??

Could i treat the files with javascript on client side before it is uploaded? Or is there a really user friendly way of getting it done by the client??

Ideas and solutions are welcome.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You could try using an upload library like http://www.uploadify.com/ or http://swfupload.org/ that use Flash to upload files, which may circumvent the servers upload limit, but if those don’t work, you might be stuck.