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[easydoesit]

I have a webcam portal on my website.  I wanted visitors that don't have a server to store their webcam images to be able to upload their webcam image onto Coppermine gallery, and then hotlink the actual image to the webcam portal.

My problem comes when the visitor wants to update their webcam image.  Because if they upload their new webcam image onto Coppermine gallery, it will be a different filename than what they stated their webcam URL is, which has to remain the same.

I was searching the board for a way if they can rename the filename of an already uploaded picture to no avail.  I don't want them to have to delete their original webcam image, because I want them to be able to eventually have a sort of archive of their webcam images.

[Casper]

If you arejust using hotlinking, instead of rss feeds etc, try using the link to the last addition for the album, instead of the actual pictures url, i.e, if your users pics are going into their personnal album, and they are user id 25, then the link would be 'http://www.yoursite.com/coppermine_directory/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=10025&pos=0'.

[easydoesit]

Thank you casper, your solution helped me.

I am using a combination of your 'last user upload link' solution as well as just directly hotlinking (until it becomes a problem bandwidth-wise) and having users manage their own albums on their hard drive using windows xp publisher.