Save snapshot web camera

[jammyjames]

Hi,

I have a web site called www.yarmouthportal.com and I currently pay a lot of money for someone to proide me with a couple of benifits such as Saving a Snapshot and Emailing a Snapshot.


Now I am able to get a temporary (updates when the browser refreshes) snapshot from the camera but I don't know how to upload the image to my server. Currently I would have to right click then save as. I want this to be a bit more user friendly such as the one currently www.yarmouthportal.com/camera/index.php

Can anyone please help me?

Thanks

[mlseim]

Could you show us how you get the photo?
Perhaps you're using a PHP script already, or Javascripting?

[jammyjames]

Hi,

Ok this is the image location http://217.155.209.14:2220/SnapshotJ...ality=Standard

This is updated every time you refresh.

I want to be able to include that in my Yarmouth Portal site and then when I click "Save Snapshot" it will prompt me to save this image to my computer.

Thanks for any help

[mlseim]

I'm just confused here ...

On this page:
http://www.yarmouthportal.com/camera/index.php

You already are displaying the webcam shot and there are
links to email or save. How is this different from your question?

... and this link times-out:
http://217.155.209.14:2220/SnapshotJ...ality=Standard

[jammyjames]

Sorry,

On the Yarmouth Portal site features an existing program which I pay a lot of money every month for. I can't afford to pay it and I know that there is a way to do it myself. Somehow.

[mlseim]

So do you have a link where you can get your camera image?

.... a way to view the photo for free? (or is that part of the package)?

Somewhere along the line, that webcam is hooked up to a PC or something
that puts the image on the internet. Is that part of your system, or are you
paying for that?

[jammyjames]

This is the snapshot direct from the camera http://217.155.209.14:2220/SnapshotJ...ality=Standard

As i said everytime the page is refreshed the image will change unless it has been saved.

[mlseim]

OK,

I'm going to look for a PHP solution to this.
A way to grab the image and create some options
to save or email.

Until then, someone may jump in with another solution.

[firepages]

ok , first off who `owns` the webcamera ? and the bandwidth it uses... they need to give you permission to use images from it, if thats the case then the solution is easy, but if you don't have rights to use the image then we can't help you `grab` it here.

Please advise.

actually, it appears possible for anyone to control that camera ... not good!

[jammyjames]

Thanks I would really appreciate the help.

The site, IP address and Web Camera are all mine and I have full rights to them.

The camera can be controlled by anyone by using up to 8 presets. This is as far as a guest user can go.

Regards

[firepages]

OK...

PHP Code:

<?php
/*where to get*/
$url="http://217.155.209.14:2220/SnapshotJPEG?Resolution=320x240&Quality=Standard";
/*where to put*/
$img_path='/home/fire/Desktop/snap'.mktime.'.jpg'; 

$yaks=file_get_contents($url);
$fp=fopen($img_path,'wb');
fputs($fp,$yaks);
fclose($fp);
?>

I put a timestamp at the end of the filename but whatever...

[firepages]

ah ok missed the bit about saving the image..

you could run the above code when someone clicks the 'save image' button then ... pass the img_path to something like this

PHP Code:

<?php
function force_download($path){
           $file=basename($path);
           header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
           header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
          header("Content-Length: $size");
           // Required to get around the MSIE 5.5 Bug of downloading filname.php
           if(preg_match("/MSIE 5.5/", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
           {

                  header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"$file\"");
                            } else
            {
                   header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=$file");
                             }
           //header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
           $fh = fopen($path, "rb");
           fpassthru($fh);
}
?>

[jammyjames]

Hi

ok code looks great.

Excuse me if I am being stupid but how would I pass the image onto the next script you posted?

I really appreciate your help!

Regards

[mlseim]

James ...

I was also looking into using PHP GD library for doing something like
putting a watermark or text directly on the image ... maybe to indicate
camera location, time, etc. Would you be interested in anything like that?

Firepages provided the good stuff for saving image, much better than the
solution I had, so go with that.

[jammyjames]

Hi all I am always looking for ways to improve what I have.

Firepages, I really appreciate the help but i'm not sure how to implement this script. I tried just running the first script alone but it just spat loads of errors at me beginning from line 7.

If you could help me I would really appreciate it.

Regards,

James