Uploading Pictures According to the data

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Originally posted by baby
Danial! i just wanna say you are really very helpful...

I just managed to do the scaling. If not for ya, i would not have learn so much about uploading image...

If in anychange you need my help just let me know =)

I will certainly try my best to help ya =)

My icq is #73247670 :)

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Thanks for the compliment :). We are all here to help and learn from each other.

I think teaching some one else is one of the greate way to learn...

Sorry stopped using ICQ for about 3 years.

Good luck.

Danial

yeah we are all here to help each other =)

alright no problem drop me a email if you want to contact me :)

Danial - Remeber that time u helped me on storing the pathing of where the picture is stored into the Database?

It stored a path EG: c:\inetpub\pictures\upload\123.gif

This is fine when i run the asp on my computer.

But when i tried accessing the asp pages from other computer. They cant find the image file. Becos its pointing to c:\inetpub\pictures\upload\123.gif but this file is not on their computer.

Anyway to fix this????

Store the images on the webserver and not on your local pc.

Also use Server.MApPath to get the relative path of the image.

Regards,
Abhijit

hi abhijit can u give me a example how to use the server.MapPath?

But right now my this program is done on my this PC and i dun think my supervisor would have access to the webserver in our school.

hi baby,
server.mappath can be used to map absolute paths to relative paths. Check This Link For More

u are developing your program on your pc, but you need to host it on a web-server so that everyone can access it.

How are you accessing the asp from another pc? Where is the location of the webserver?

Cheers,
Abhijit

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Originally posted by abhijit
hi baby,
server.mappath can be used to map absolute paths to relative paths. Check This Link For More

u are developing your program on your pc, but you need to host it on a web-server so that everyone can access it.

How are you accessing the asp from another pc? Where is the location of the webserver?

Cheers,
Abhijit

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Oh i am accessing it by just typing the IP of my computer and the path of where my project is held.

EG 172.xxx.xx.23/project/index.asp

in this case anyway to fix this?

Ok. My suggestion to you is store the mapped path inside the database instead of the absolute path.

Then when your asp reads the path, it will show the image correctly on your friend's pc as well.

Check it out.

Cheers,
Abhijit:wave:

hm.. I think only danial could help me on this... Cos he did the componenent for upload for me..

I still dunnoe how i am going to put relative pathing.

currently theres a column in my database that store the picture pathing. Right now its storing absolute pathing..

EG: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\project\pictures\upload\emilia123.gif

i tried changing it to pictures\upload\emilia123.gif or project\pictures\upload\emilia123.gif but cant work =(

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Originally posted by baby

currently theres a column in my database that store the picture pathing. Right now its storing absolute pathing..

EG: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\project\pictures\upload\emilia123.gif

i tried changing it to pictures\upload\emilia123.gif or project\pictures\upload\emilia123.gif but cant work =(

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Change it to

pictures/upload/emilia123.gif Notice the difference in the slash. And then check it out.

Cheers,
Abhijit

after some tweaking i finally got it able to work


But i did this by hardcoding

this is what i did

server.MapPath("pictures\upload\ddtree.gif")

it works for this.. But this is not what i wanted cos i will be taking the path value from my database


i want it to be something like this

server.MapPath(rs.fields("Picture")) but i get a type mismatch error

cani noe the excat syntax?

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Originally posted by baby
after some tweaking i finally got it able to work


But i did this by hardcoding

this is what i did

server.MapPath("pictures\upload\ddtree.gif")

it works for this.. But this is not what i wanted cos i will be taking the path value from my database


i want it to be something like this

server.MapPath(rs.fields("Picture")) but i get a type mismatch error

cani noe the excat syntax?

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your field contains the c:\ so its giving an error.
when you store you will have to do a server.mappath
that ways everyone accessing the page will be able to see the pictures.

-abhijit

um.. can u give me a more detail explanation=) sorry cant really understand what you are trying to say

Detailed Explanation follows:
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When you upload the image, you are storing the image in your local drive.
You are also storing the same absolute path of the drive.
This is causing this path to be displayed in property of the img tag.
<img>c:\localpath\yourimage.jpg</img>

Instead of storing the local path of the image, my suggestion to you is to
store the relative path in the database.

So when your webpage is accessed through any pc, the path displayed in the localpath will be
<img>/localpath/yourimage.jpg</img>

Am I being clear or do you need some more explanations?

Cheers,
Abhijit :wave:

ok this i know. Cos i already did it


But what i am puzzled right now is this

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guys i need your here pls tell me what is wrong with this statement

My Picture column contain this picture\upload\123.gif

VB Code:

path=rs.fields(picture)
 
server.mappath(path)//error line

if i do the above code i will get a type mismatch error

VB Code:

path="picture\upload\123.gif"
 
server.mappath(path)

but if i do this then every thing turns out fine...

What is wrong with this!??

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the above is taken off my post at here http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=277869

ok i think i know whats the problem already

Cos some of my picture column is empty

and i think server.mappath can handle empty string. Thats y the type mismatch error..



Ok any way to solve this??So that i can handle empty string?

ok i solved it.. By doing another way around...By putting default value into my picture column... Thx all for the help.....

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Originally posted by baby
ok i solved it.. By doing another way around...By putting default value into my picture column... Thx all for the help.....

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way to go baby! :wave: