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How can you save an image taken from a webcam with PHP & jQuery?

  • How can I have a webcam interface and have someone take a picture and have that picture saved in a directory with PHP/jQuery?

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    You can't get access to the webcam using either jQuery or PHP.  You'll need to use something like Flash or Silverlight.  Once you have the image data you can easily save it by posting it to a PHP script using code like this: $img = $GLOBALS["HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA"];header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=image.jpg);file_put_contents('image.jpg', $img); If you need more help, feel free to email me.  I have some code and a Flash component that might help.

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PHP and jQuery do not have access to the cam.  I'm not sure if this is changing with any HTML specs though.  Currently, the best way to capture an image from a webcam is with Flash.  There is an API for it.  Last time I did it though I had to base64 encode the image and send it to a server side script to decode and save.

Brennan Cheung

Cincopa gallery plugin is used to upload video directly from webcam to website. I am not sure if it works  for image also. http://www.cincopa.com/media-platform/services/create-photo-gallery

Megan Wetzler

I got image data as base64 encoding type. In order to upload it on server, i need to save image on client's storage firstly ? Regards.

Pyodro Song

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