note 59199 added to function.imagegif

I would rather use gifsicle ( http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ ) instead of convert. It runs much faster with big animations. I got large animations with over 500 frames rendered where convert was killed by my system because of memory consumption. And it contains pretty well optimization. A sample gifsicle usage (not much optimized): <? // Sample gifsicle usage to create a scrolling text $gifsicle = "/usr/local/bin/gifsicle"; # http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ $time = time(); for ($rend_frame = 0; $rend_frame <= 26; $rend_frame++) { $im = @imagecreatetruecolor(300, 20); $background = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 100); $red = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 0, 0); $filename = "/tmp/giftest_".$time."_".str_pad($rend_frame, 10, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT).".gif"; $framefiles[] = $filename; imagestring($im, 3, ($rend_frame * 15)-80, 3, "Animation rox", $red); imagegif($im,$filename); imagedestroy($im); }; $outfile = "/tmp/giftest_".$time.".gif"; $cmd = "$gifsicle --loop -O1 --delay 25 /tmp/giftest_".$time."*> $outfile"; exec($cmd, $out, $err); foreach ($framefiles as $framefile) { if (file_exists($framefile)) unlink($framefile); }; header('Content-type: image/gif'); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename=test.gif'); header('Content-Length: '.@filesize($outfile)); readfile($outfile); unlink($outfile); ?> Or get patches from http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/sw/ to be able to do it all inside php... ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagegif.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59199 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59199&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59199&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59199&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59199&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59199&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59199&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59199&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59199&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php