Re: GIF Manipulation

>I'm currently developing a site which needs the ability to do server-side >image cropping and resizing. I currently have a current version of GD >installed with PHP, however the lack of support for GIFs is causing endless >headaches. > >Is there any way to support GIFs in PHP without reverting to an older >version of GD (and loosing PNG support in the process)? In the strictest sense of your question, "No." :-) However, if you want to save on your aspirin costs, just install ImageMagik and use http://php.net/exec or even a simple cron job directly to ImageMagik's 'convert' command to do all your cropping and scaling. Actually, I've heard rumors of a third-party site that takes the current gd and modifies it to support GIF again, but they are shrouded in the same mists as those salvage yards that repair space-ships in bad Sci-Fi novels... :-) Solid leads to correct this deficiency in my knowledge are most welcome. As much as I respect Boutell's decision and rationale, there's just too many damn GIFs out there I have to deal with and exec/ImageMagik is not that attractive sometimes... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm