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"Is there a way for PHP to capture image through my webcam?"

Hi. I swear I've seen this talked about before - a PHP webcam thingy that captures images and displays them on a webpage. Any ideas?

phi11ip wrote:
> Your webcam software may have the feature with it.
>
> Mine allows me to create a webcam, it just won't work anymore because
> of the NTL modem..


Portforwarding issue? Or maybe not :)

Anyway yeah, use phil's webcam warez.

I found the problem, I was stil trying to dial up instead of connecting through a LAN...

Oh, and this new imagestudio software doesn't seem to allow me to create a webcam to my own personal website. Only spotlife...

I'm gonna download the latest software...

It's only 40 meg!

*Strokes 150kb line*

Should take hopefully about 45 mins. I can get about a-meg-a-minute at best...

Hm, what's the problem with it? I run it fine with my ntl connection, seems to have more problems trying to view it over my LAN than from the outside world..

Your webcam software may have the feature with it.

Mine allows me to create a webcam, it just won't work anymore because of the NTL modem..

*Bes Phil*

*Waves*

http://www.stratoware.com/webcam2000/ is the site for the software I use, works fine with my USB Zoomcam..it can either run it's own webserver to just display the image, or save the file to a location for use in a page you're hosting.

Taken from the site:
WebCam2000 is freely distributed open source software for Windows 95, 98, Me!, NT, 2000, and XP that serves images from any video capture device connected to a computer. WebCam2000 can serve pictures as either JPEG or bitmap (BMP) and can include complete HTTP headers or serve the image "raw". The second case is particularly useful when you want to perform further processing on the image; for example by using WebCam2000 as a back-end to a CGI script. One important thing to note is that the WebCam2000 is for people with a live internet connection only: the current version does not have the ability to dial-up an ISP and FTP upload an image.

Hm well if it will interface with Phil's software I can tell you how... lemme get the name of the software from phil.

It's a FREEOLA site, but I've got NTL upload space too, which can be accessed from any connection...I think. It's a USB webcam - SR sell it! The Trust 310AV. Nice little camera.

It depends on how your site is hosted, what your Internet connection is like and what kind of camera you have. Details?

You will probably need some kind of script to save the output of the webcam to a file in the background, and then the php can include the image in the page. But this is speculation on my part - I've never used a webcam, and I don't know php all that well.