Do free hosts allow visitors to upload images? If so, how?

Also voting in polls?

[fukchai2000]

hi guys...

just wanna ask...if we use a free web provider....like geocity or bravenet......or whatever...
can other people upload a photo into our webpage?
or probably rate something?
if can...how to do it?

[tedster]

Your host needs to make some kind of server side scripting availabe - so check wit any host you are considering and see whether there are provisions for Perl or PHP - the two most common languages. On a Windows account, you may also have the use of ASP.

If you Google for "polling script" you will find many available free scripts that will allow your visitors to place their votes on topics you choose. If you need help with that, we have dedicated forums here for each language. Your web host of choice will probably also have Help Files available for any kind of scripting that they support.

Uploading images may be a bit trickier, because of security issues and disk space. However, this kind of thing also uses the same assortment of server side scripting languages, and Google will be your research friend.

[HughMungus]

Very easy with PHP (in fact, I just added it).

[phpfreaks.com...]

[fukchai2000]

so do we need any DB (like SQL) on our web host if we want to rate an image or anything?