Re: Imagemagick Displaying Images

Ray Hauge wrote:

I have an application that shows thumnails of PDF files in different directories. I have so far decided that I can use "convert" from imagemagick to get a .jpg, .png, .gif, etc. to display as the image. The problem I'm running into is that I don't want to save these thumbnails. Instead I just want to take the binary data and display an image with it. I figure that it's possible since you can store binary data in a database and display it that way. an example of what I'm doing is: convert -resize 800x600 AR-M455N_20060420_130446.pdf[0] - The '-' makes it display the contents of the image to stdout. I want to caputre that binary data and somehow display the images inline with the website. Is this possible, or am I living in a dream world ;) Thanks, Hope someone provides a good answer.

I had a similar problem and ended up by writing the image to a temporary file. The temp file must retrained long enough to insure the client has received it. So, I made a function that checks all temp file's filemtime() compared with the current time and unlink any that exceed x. This function can be a cronjob or simply the page that creates the temp file, assuming it gets called frequently.