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Posted by nemo on 06/28/05 00:01
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:16:05 +0200, Stefan Rybacki <stefan.rybacki@gmx.net>
wrote:
>nemo wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:08:19 +0300, "Parastatidis Nikos" <capamaru@quake.gr>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >imagecreatefromstring()
>> >this is what i whanted and my eye didnt catch it from the manual
>> >thanks alot stefan.
>> >
>> >
>> >"Stefan Rybacki" <stefan.rybacki@gmx.net> wrote in message
>> >news:3iaifeFkiju0U1@individual.net...
>> >> nemo wrote:
>> >>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:45:31 +0300, "Parastatidis Nikos"
>> >>> <capamaru@quake.gr>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> >i have some customers images on blob fields
>> >>> >i have an image template that i whan to use it as background and
>> >>> merge the
>> >>> >customer image with the template
>> >>> >this is what i mean manipulate gernaly handle the image directly as
>> >>> taken
>> >>> >from the database and not storeing temporary on a file.
>> >>> >is this posible?
>> >>> >or do i have fopen and put the stream from the database on a temp
>> >>> file.
>> >>> Are you wanting to go something like - <img src="$Row[image]">
>> >>> as opposed to
>> >>> <img src="image_directory/$Row[image_filename]">?
>> >>> What have you tried?
>> >>> I repeat - it's best to store only the filename.
>> >>
>> >> I guess I wants more like this:
>> >>
>> >> $img1=createFromStream($row['img1']);
>> >> $img2=createFromStream($row['img2']);
>> >>
>> >> $newimg=mergeImages($img1,$img1);
>> >>
>> >> and then for example store it
>> >>
>> >> imageJpeg($newimg,'filename.jpg');
>> >> print('<img src="filename.jpg">');
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> but I think he is wants to do something more like this:
>> >>
>> >> header("image/jpeg");
>> >> imageJpeg($newimg);
>> >>
>> >> HTML - File somewhere
>> >>
>> >> ...
>> >> <img src="mergedImages.php?image1=7&image2=9">
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The OP should help to know what he wants.
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >> Stefan
>> >
>> php.net says -
>> QUOTE
>> resource imagecreate ( int x_size, int y_size )
>>
>> imagecreate() returns an image identifier representing a blank image of size
>> x_size by y_size.
>> UNQUOTE
>> So that means (I think!) that he's creating a blank image of a certain size
>> which he then fills with the contents of a blob from his database.
>>
>> As this seems to me to be duplication, what advantage (if any) does his that
>> have over "my" preference, or under what circumstancesd should I choose it?
>
>Its correct, you should not store the images data into the database but
>a reference to the images location on the server. So you are right with
>your suggestion to store the image outside the database.
>But the OP is right to load the image via imagecreatefromstring or
>imagecreatefromjpeg, whatever, if he wants to merge two pictures together.
>
>Regards
>Stefan
I guess he has to work the image for degrees of transparency, then? (I
dunno - there *has* to be a simpler way. Oh well, I don't think it's
anything to trouble me, anyway.)
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