#54: Uploading Images to a Directory
Periodically uploading 5 or 10 photos a week to a webserver is a bother. When I was updating my webserver, I had to save photos on my hard drive, start the FTP client, put them on the site, and then send the URL to anyone interested. There are a lot of image gallery programs that do this, but most are very complicated; I wanted to see if I could do something a little simpler.
Like all good lazy programmers, I decided to automate the process, coming up with a fairly foolproof system that allows users to upload pictures (and pictures only) into a directory. The features I wanted to incorporate would block excessively large images and generate HTML complete with height and width attributes. The first part of the ...
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