Comments on: Webthumb API additions

By: Tester

Tester — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:42:01 +0000

Argh, couldn’t you add more PHP docs to your goddamn API?!

By: Soren

Soren — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:31:55 +0000

I agree with ad. 16 – It would be really nice if you could chose a notification that just include an url to the specified thumb.

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:22:53 +0000

Marc: I just saw your post, I do have some additions to notify that are in testing, give me an email if you want to help test/shape the new features.

By: Marc Palmer

Marc Palmer — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:02:34 +0000

Josh… I think it would be much nicer if the notify callback included the URLs of the thumnails, or at least the base URL.

This also gives you more options about where this stuff is stored without breaking all the existing clients – eg temporarily shift files up to Amazon S3 or to some other temporary domain.

eg post to the notify callback some XML data with thumbnail type + url pairs.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:55:15 +0000

Done and done!

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:02:59 +0000

Drew: i’ll see if i can add a flag to change to post instead of get, can you send me an email josh@bluga.net so i don’t forget

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:28:54 +0000

Oops. The first example url above is suppose to be
/notifiers/webthumb/{job_id}

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:28:31 +0000

Hi Josh,

I am currently implementing your script on a Code Igniter framework, which means no query strings (or their are, but they are in directory path format). Currently your notify callback will append the jobid to the url, which will result in a 404 not found for me.

Even if you would still like to do it via post, perhaps you could come up with a way to format the way in which it is returned?

If I could get it to post back as in the following it would be good to go as well:
/notifiers/webthumb/

-or-

Is it possible to POST this data to the notify_url rather then GET?

Sending the POST data to the url
/notifiers/webthumb/

would be another option.

Thoughts?

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:34:31 +0000

epto: I am looking into adding json support in the future, but its not like the xml were working with is complex so i don’t see a huge win for anyone by supporting it and there are more interesting features to work on.

By: epto

epto — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:18:32 +0000

I think:
json or serialize are better than xml in this application!
This script is simple and it work.

sid: is sthe filename

$sid=@$_GET['sid'];
$id=@$_GET['id'];

$savepath=”/mysavepath”;
$path=substr($id,-2).’/’.substr($id,-4,-2).’/’.substr($id,-6,-4);
$url=”http://webthumb.bluga.net/data/$path/$id.jpg”;
$data=file_get_contents($url);
if ($data!==FALSE AND strpos($data,’OK

Get this script as example and test
Don’t lost the money and time with other!