Re: Image_Remote
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:18:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Image_Remote | ||
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On Wed Mar 24, 2004 at 05:3446AM +0100, Derick Rethans wrote:
> can somebody explain the use of Image_Remote? It seems like this whole
> class is just a new implementation for getimagesize(), which is actually
> far better anyway (more types supported, more transports supported, some
> EXIF data... etc).
>
> It looks all very pointless to me to have this 576 line class for a
> replacement of one line of code.
Previously to PHP 4.0.5, getimagesize() did not work with images that
can not be retrieved locally but must be fetched via HTTP, which is
the reason for the existence of Image_Remote.
Nowadays I do not think this package serves much purpose.
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