Posted by none on 06/29/07 08:53

peter wrote:
>> shall we say you want to creae a banner, a button, and other images
>> for your site. some create images on the fly through php using gd
>> library. is this more advisable or more efficient compared to creating
>> an image file (.jpg) shall we say using photoshop?
>
> If there is no reason to create the images on the fly then a hard copy of
> the image is always the best option. If you create images on the fly then
> php will have to create the image everytime it is requested which wastes
> server resources.
>
>
Yup and if you must create images in the fly for whatever reason atleast
cache the images that you have made

if(file_exists($img))
{
// include image
}
else
{
//create image
/ cache image
}

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