Posted by Andy Hassall on 11/04/05 20:15

On 4 Nov 2005 10:05:06 -0800, lkrubner@geocities.com wrote:

>Andy Hassall wrote:
>> On 4 Nov 2005 09:42:55 -0800, lkrubner@geocities.com wrote:
>>
>> >How do I get an image like that, as a stream of bytes? Which function
>> >do I use?
>>
>> Where are you getting it from?
>> What format is the image in?
>>
>> You probably want a sequence of:
>>
>> http://uk.php.net/file_get_contents - get the image from a file or URL
>>
>> http://uk.php.net/imagecreatefromstring - create a GD image object
>
>Well, I'm groping in the dark here, but I think that
>imagecreatefromstring would give me an actual image, whereas what I
>want is an actual string, and I don't know how to get a string from an
>image file.

That was why I posted the rest of my post, you've stopped reading too early.
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