Program for visitors to upload pics

how do I go about this?

[wiskur]

Hello,
We have a website and are planning a contest for people to send us photos of our product in use. We can have them mail or email the pictures to us, but I would prefer a way for them to be able to actually upload the pics to our ftp site or such. Do I need to purchase a program for this or is there a script that can do this? Any information on this would be appreciated. THanks!

[jatar_k]

you can do this with any scripting language, there a ton of image uploader scripts around that should do the job.

try
[hotscripts.com...]

[zulu_dude]

It also depends on whether you want visitors to be able to upload multiple pictures at a time. If they aren't going to need to upload more than, for example, 5 pictures then a standard form and script is probably fine.

If they need to upload multiple pictures, then it's probably going to be easiest for them (although more work for you to implement it!) to use a java applet to upload the files. There are one or two open source options available, I've found one called JUpload that seems to work best. If you search in google for it, you should find places where you can download it.

I didn't investigate them too thoroughly, but java FTP programs are also available. From what I can see, there doesn't seem to be any open source implementations of this, so you might have to (shock, horror) buy one.