Schedule uploading using ftp & api

[SMP]

Here is a small tutorial to schedule posting your images.

Step 1:
Create a folder "autoup" on server and a new file using the following code, change api_key, site_url, images_folder_path and save it as rand.php and upload it to "autoup" folder

<?php
// api key
$api_key = 'your_api_key'; //change this

// script install location
$site_url = 'http://www.yoursite.com';  //change this

// path to autoup folder
$images_folder_path = '/home/xxxx/public_html';  //change this

// folder name
$folder_name = '/autoup/';  // optional change

// extensions to be checked
$extensions = array('jpg','jpeg','gif','png','bmp');

// Images Array (SRC value)
$images = array();


// Open directory and read images
if ($handle = opendir($images_folder_path.$folder_name)) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
     if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
       // get file extension
       $ext = strtolower(substr(strrchr($file, "."), 1));
         if(in_array($ext, $extensions)) {
           $images[] = $file;
         }
     }
   }

   if(!empty($images)) {
     $rand_img = array_rand($images, 1);
     $img_name = $images[$rand_img];
     $img_url = $site_url.$folder_name.$img_name;
     $api = $site_url .'/api/1/upload/?key='.$api_key.'&source='.$img_url.'&format=txt' ;
     echo file_get_contents("$api");
   
     if(unlink($img_name));
   }

closedir($handle);
}
else
{
echo 'No images were found';
}
?>

Step 2:
Create a cron job as required with the following command

wget -O /dev/null -o /dev/null http://www.yoursite.com/autoup/rand.php

Step 3:
From now on upload your pictures to "autoup"

 

[Bazim]

Nice! Thank you and is possible to auto share this pictures to FaceBook?

 

[SMP]

Nice! Thank you and is possible to auto share this pictures to FaceBook?

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[jimsweb]

this is very nice!

is it possible to make an image appear in facebook page automatically? thanks a lot for your helping hand!