Re: Drawing Images Without Writing To a File

From: Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:25:59 +0000
Subject: Re: Drawing Images Without Writing To a File
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On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:27 -0500, Floyd Resler wrote: > I want to draw tabs in a tab bar without having to actually write the images to a file. Is it > possible to generate the image and send the data back and make the browser think it's loading > an image file? I know this can be done by sending the proper headers back for an entire page, but I > just want to do basically the same thing for just part of the page. > > Thanks! > Floyd > > Have the image tag call a script which generates the images based on parameters in the filename: <img src="image.php?param1=something&param2=something_else"/> Then you can have PHP read in the GET data and generate any image you need. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

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