Posted by itserich on November 18, 2010 at 7:55pm
I would like to allow people to:
1-Take a photo with a phone
2-Send the photo to the web site
3-Thereby creating a node, and
4-Receive an auto from response which allows the person to add details and respond to potential owner inquiries.
Idea came from sites such as Youtube, I think, allow uploading files by texting to a specific number, so am looking around to see what is possible.
I barely use a mobile phone so this is new territory.
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After looking around, it
After looking around, it seems a great start would be to allow new nodes to be created by having an email sent to the web site.
The mail could be sent to: lost@missingpups.com or found@missingpups.com
Photo: attached
Text: zip code or city/state; i.e. an OpenLayers WKT field
A new user could be created from the email address or phone number (not sure how it works on a phone) and a new node as well.
Then, a link autmoatically sent back so the submitter can modify the info later.
Media Mover and Mailhandler both seem to offer some functionality.
Getting a configured email address such as lost@missingpups.com through either of those is proving a challenge, but it has only been a day.
Everything with Drupal seems easy, once it is learned.
MIME Router
Found MIME Router. It somehow picks out attachments from incoming emails (via Mailhandler) and places them into appropriate cck fields.
MIME Router requires no or almost no configuration. Which can be great, or annoying if you like lots of options, but for this purpose it works great.
This module deserves a huge increase in use.
http://drupal.org/project/mimerouter
I'm working on a project
I'm working on a project where we have a cellphone in the field that is TXTing an email server data that is imported into Drupal using Mailhandler. I've heard there are ways to support photos using Mailhandler but supporting locations would be trickier and would definitely require some more coding on the Drupal end if the user was expected to send an address with the MMS or TXT. To improve the user experience I would suggest writing a mobile app that could use the cellphone's own internal gps and camera to send the data to Drupal.
Thanks rjstatic. As far as
Thanks rjstatic.
As far as photos with Mailhandler, Mime Router has worked flawlessly inserting attached photos into cck fields.
http://drupal.org/project/mimerouter
I have a lot to learn about mobile apps so thanks.