I am doing pre planning for the blenderxgrid.com script. I was originally going to do this with PERL, but elected against it. Eventually I'll be moving the site off astahost and replacing it with a website hosted on the same machine as the xgrid controller. I am setting up a test version on my latop using OSX's apache server, MySQL, and PHP on a localhost config.

Here is my step list for the script:

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Form: (within Xoops CMS, so user will have to be logged in)

Username
Password

[file upload] (where they can upload the .blend file)

Start Frame: first frame of animation

End Frame: last frame of animation

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Step 1: Check username & password against xoops database

Step 2: ensure file is a .blend else die ("Sorry, not a blender file")

Step 3: Upload file to /gridjobs/ & report success

Step 4:


$filePath = "/gridjobs/" . "$fileName";
$blenderPath = "/blender/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender -b" . $filePath . "-s " . $startFrame . "-e " .$endFrame . "-a";

system ('xgrid -h localhost -p password -job submit $blenderPath', $results);

print $results;

?>


That's what I got so far. Any other ideas or corrects welcome. It's been a couple years since I last programed anything from scratch.