Photo uploads for mobile users on site

[tbworld]

It is not an easy thing to do without making an app for the phone itself.

Older Phones - The only way is to accept SMS messages directly to the board for the older type phones, then decode the encapsulated photo data in the sms message.

Iphone requires an upload app, there is no access to the file system from the safari browser -- that I know of. There are other browsers that will work for this like "icab". Iphone6 has been reported to be able to access the photo areas from the browser.

Android has a similar problem.

This is why third party products must be used. As phones get better browsers this problem may go away. Anyway, so do not wait around for a vb developer anytime soon to solve this problem for the mobile style. On my board we wrote our own app for Iphone and android and we accept SMS messages from a third party. It is all complicated and messy.

I hope this helps.

--------------- Added 13 Jul 2013 at 14:12 ---------------

In my opinion, in the short run, I think forum software has to have tighter integration with external services. That solves the album/photo issues, text messaging issues, and image issues. Unfortunately, we are just stuck using third party software and gateways.