# Web camera application

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/web-camera-application/16492>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 25, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/web-camera-application/16492 "2003-03-25T17:54:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![0nePixel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/4bbf92/32.png) [@0nePixel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/0nePixel)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/web-camera-application/16492/1 "2003-03-25T17:54:24Z")

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Ok here’s the deal. I’m building a member system for a kiosk. So im building a picture capturing app. But this is the issue. What are the functions for controlling a web cam. I know theres a way. I’ve gotten as far as getting the embedded video into place. Just not sure where to go from here. I was thinking of just building my own function and doing it that way. But there’s gotta be another way. The other half is saving it as a jpeg then storing into a mysql db. do i just capture, print to file, rename the file, store it in a folder, then point the db to the folder?

I’ve got it kinda figured out just some other input would be rad!

Nate