I used CFPOP for the first time ever this evening. Kind of surprising that I've never had occasion to use it in 6 years of full-time CF development, now that I think about it. Once again, CFML makes it easy (or at least straightforward) to accomplish what is a horribly nasty task.
Anyway, I just got a new cell phone because my old one didn't have a speakerphone option, and now that I'm working remotely, I spend a lot of time on the phone. What I didn't anticipate was that it has a camera as well. Being the good geek that I am, I decided to implement an "email pictures to my blog" thingy, so I can take a picture with the phone, email it off to a designated address, and it'll get automatically posted to my blog.
As always, design comes first, so I'll be releasing a resusable component to perform all the nasty work should anyone else want to incorporate the same feature into their blog. Just extend it to provide your blog-specific posting implementation, set up a scheduled task so it fires regularly, and the rest will happen by magic. But that's not ready yet. ; )
I've got a complete working sample that even makes thumbnails with cfx_image dll. If you like I could post the script??
Also make sure you check the senders e-mail.. otherwise everyone could send an e-mail to your address that will end up on your blog.
See http://www.ditadres.com/index.cfm/cat_id/0258AF10-11D8-29D5-AA28-9F05353B8740 (Dutch) to see posting made with my phone as e-mails
Tjarko,
I'm not worrying about thumbnails – that's up to your blog's infrastructure. My component will solely deal with getting the image and passing it to the blog software. I will be checking senders, of course, and that information (along with some in-subject tags) will be available as part of the data the component passes to the blog.
So do we get to actually see any of these pictures yet? Am I just asking for trouble here?
No, not yet. Still haven't finished building it, nor integrating it into the blog. But soon. Once American Idol is over, my casual coding time diminishes markedly, so time is of the essence.
hey der….m new to coldfusion but m supposd to make an application where by il hav to grab a csv attachment n post to website..any ideas :) an email would be appreciated,thnks in advance
Tanshul,
Using proper spelling and grammar will make your search far easier. There are myriad resources available on the web and via mailing lists for this sort of thing. However, a poorly formatted, one-off comment on an unrelated blog post is definitely not one of them.
hi, you can sendme this component to view and learn about this?
Thank you
Sam,
I have no idea what happened to the code, unfortunately. I never really finished it, though I do remember sending it off (in partial form) to someone via email. If I come across it, I'll be sure to post it, but at this point I'm not terribly optimistic.