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Simple Webcam Image Archive Script --------------------------------- Author: Stephen Phillips - http://www.stephen-phillips.co.uk/webcam.html Created Date: 11/03/2012 Last Modified Date: 30/04/14 Version: 1.12 Updated to fix some minor bugs and issues in the code. Description: This is a simple script I wrote to automatically archive images from my webcam to a MySQL Database for me to view later using PHP and a scheduler such as cron. It is very simple, and can be included into a page using an iframe, it automatically copies the latest version of an image to the database which can be viewed using gallery.php to view all with sorting options, or using recentListing.php which shows the 10 most recent images archived. Installation ------------ 1. Extract the webcam.zip archive. 2. Create a mysql db called something like `webcam` and upload the contents of the sql file `webcam.sql` in the folder /db to it 3. Edit the config.inc.php in the inc folder to contain your website details and the database details. 4. Upload the folder to your server (keeping it in the /webcam directory otherwise you will have to edit it). 5. Setup your crontab to contain the following line, which copies the file every 10 minutes, edited for your own website and server */10 * * * * curl http://www.yourwebsite.co.uk/webcam/snapshot.php >/dev/null 2>&1 6. Embed either gallery.php or recentListing.php in your website using the following code or link directly to them. <iframe src="http://www.yourwebsite.co.uk/webcam/gallery.php" width="1024" height="768" scrolling="yes" frameborder="no"></iframe> <iframe src="http://www.yourwebsite.co.uk/webcam/recentListing.php" width="1024" height="200" scrolling="no" frameborder="no"></iframe> 7. I have included a very basic and simple javascript webcam script in the page index.html which will update an image src every 15 seconds without reloading the page or doing a meta refresh, this can be used in conjunction with an ftp upload of an image from your webcam and will update every 15 seconds, Feel free to play and style it! Change Notes ------------ Commented out some code which attempted to use the folder name to create a category tag in the db, this was not needed and is intended for a future update and was causing errors. Future Development ------------------ I am hoping to rewrite this using Socket.IO (http://socket.io/) and node.js (http://nodejs.org/) at some point soon. Finally ------- You can see the script in action on my website over at http://www.stephen-phillips.co.uk/webcam.html Have Fun, And feel free to email me at me@stephen-phillips.co.uk with comments and suggestions!