Posted by NC on 12/19/05 01:23

swisscheese wrote:
>
> After reading 5 tutorials, I must be missing something basic.

The key is to realize that you are going to need TWO scripts:

1. The script (or even a static HTML file) containing the image
tag. Example: <IMG SRC="image.php">

2. The PHP script posing as image. Be sure that there are no
symbols in the script file before the first "<?" or "<?php".

This will ensure that the browser will render the output of
the script as an image.

> Also I don't really want to create the file - just output the image
> directly.

You don't have to if you don't want to... In the first script (or an
HTML file) you write:

<IMG SRC="image.php">

In the image.php, you write:

header("Content-type: image/png");
// Here's where you actually draw the image...
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

Cheers,
NC

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