[sailnet]

Originally Posted by glen290

I just installed it on my test board and although its a good idea, not how i hoped it would work, was looking for something similar to facebook, where i could upload straight to a users album rather than create a thread and reply via email with attachments

I developed code like that for my vb3.8 forum and never released it to the public. It's working well on my 3.8 forum. I've had to write my own code to handle different image types from different cell phone carriers and I like the way it works.

I have people 'register' by sending a text message from their cell phone to a specific email address I've set up. I extract their cell phone number "email address" from the text message and have them enter their cell phone number into one of the additional fields.

each provider is different: for instance sprint is nnnnnnnnnn@messaging.sprintpcs.com and image come through different from different providers. The code took a long time to develop and test.

I have a cron job that runs every 5 minutes to check the inbox of the email address to process the uploaded pics.

After they're registered I sent them an email much like FB does that gives them the email address to sent their mobile uploads to. I can also extract text along with the picture. I create a Mobile Uploads Gallery for them.

It works great. After the new years I'll be redoing the code for VB4 and will offer the package for sale at probably $99 per site.

Facebook uses a third party company that developed all of the code for nearly all of the major carriers. My code supports AT&T, Sprint and Verizon.

here's the announcement on my forum about how it works.

http://www.speedwake.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63279