Forums | Admin Discussion Forums: help Start New Thread Nested Flat Threaded Ultimate Show 25 Show 50 Show 75 Show 100   By: Trevor Schroeder RE: upload image [ reply ]   2007-03-03 07:01 If you have a file on disk, you should pretty much always use upload_file and it will do the magic for you. Let's say you had the contents of a JPEG in a database instead of a file. You can't very easily point at "that specific row's data field" and expect everything to just work. You could however pull out the blob from the database and use upload_image to upload it. Basically, if you don't know why you'd use upload_image, then you shouldn't be using it. :) When you upload async, flickr gives you back a ticket after the image uploads which you can present later to see if it's done doing all the necessary post-upload processing like storing it in the database, thumbnailing it, etc. You only wait for the upload to complete, not the other parts. By: michael scott RE: upload image [ reply ]   2007-03-02 13:03 thank you trevor...im still confused with what 'data' should be for upload_image...and when to use async or not...? what i have is: upload_image(?data?,"image/jpeg",path/to/file/image.jpg,"title here","description here","tag1 tag2 tag3",1,1,1) thanks By: Trevor Schroeder RE: upload image [ reply ]   2007-03-02 12:02 If you look at sample/loadr.rb, that should be pretty easy to follow. upload_image (where you specify mime type) is really only necessary if you're not uploading a file. For example, if the images are coming out of a database or being programmatically generated, you can feed the data straight to upload_image. Otherwise upload_file is the way to go. By: michael scott RE: upload image [ reply ]   2007-03-01 14:59 anil, an upload example would be greatly appreciated...im going crazy over here trying to do so...thanks so much.... By: anil k RE: upload image [ reply ]   2006-12-05 20:21 luckily I did this on my own after hours of playing around!! If someone needs help post a message here and I can paste an example. By: anil k upload image [ reply ]   2006-12-04 22:09 need help with image upload I have been trying to upload images using rflickr. I see that these are the critical fields necessary ..... data,mimetype,filename. can anyone give a basic example of uploading using a form.