Hello everyone,

I would like to create a site that had a place to input a pin number. This pin number would then in turn pull up a specific image for the user that they could order/delete/print/whathaveyou.

I'm thinking that I could create a mysql database with the image, the pin number, and maybe a category or something. Then the place that the user inputs the pin number is actually a spot simply allowing input to pull up the corresponding image.

Does this sound along the lines what other people would do?

Also, have any clues on how to effectively upload these images with pin numbers?

Sounds like a good aproach. Just generate a random PIN number when the user uploads a picture and print it so he can see it. Perhaps you could also send it in a mail to the user, in case he doesn't see it.

You should also probably have some clean up feature that removes images of a certain age, which nobody has viewed, since it's possible a user will forget his PIN and then the image is useless and just takes up space.

I need something that could do this quick and efficient to hand out to people as I take their photo. I would like to go to events and snap shots, then in turn hand out cards that would correspond with that person's photo.

Any ideas?

You could store the images in a directory that is not in the public root path. Use the DB entries to store image name, id and server path. Then the PHP script could just read the image and output it to the buffer while its still binary.