Posted by lkrubner on 11/04/05 21:03

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
>
> http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.imagesx.php
> http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.imagesy.php
> http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecolorat.phplysis tool

I guess, to some extent, I wish there was a character encoding called
"binary". So I could tell the browser to show me the raw binary bytes
of the image.

I notice that IE renders the image as an image, when I echo just the
image and nothing else.

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