Re: Drawing Images Without Writing To a File

Ken, That's exactly what I want and it works beautifully! I wish I had asked this question a long time ago since, in the past, I have been creating the files and wind up with a bunch of image files hanging around. When building this new site I thought there must be a better way! Thanks! Floyd On Mar 11, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Ken Sande wrote: > 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 > > I do something similar with my googled webcam :) Then you just use the script as the source for > your image (i.e. src="img.php?arguments"). Hopefully this is what you are looking for. > (Note, this uses the processor pretty heavily when I run 100 images or so). > If you are going to reuse the images for many clients, it may be a better alternative to reuse > the generated image. > > <?php > > header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); > $file = $_GET[src]; //"img/south-lawn1.jpg"; > $imgfile = "img/" . $file; > $fsize = filesize($file); > $string = "South Lawn @ " . date("Y-m-d H:i:s", filemtime($file)); > > $im = imagecreatefromjpeg($file); > $color = imagecolorallocate($im, 240, 240, 0); > $px = (imagesx($im) - 9.5 * strlen($string)); > $py = (imagesy($im) - 24); > imagestring($im, 5, $px, $py, $string, $color); > imagestring($im, 5, 10, $py, $file, $color); > imagestring($im, 5, 10, $py - 16, round(( $fsize / 1024 ),1) . "kB", $color); > > imagejpeg($im); > imagedestroy($im); > > ?> > > === > > 73, > Ken Sande/KC8QNI-T