Posted by Charlie King on 10/14/42 11:35

On 23 Dec 2005 11:55:47 -0800, in
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(comp.lang.php) "Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Use the VariableStream class given as an example here:
>
> http://fi.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-wrapper-register.php

Thanks, to you and Sean, for your ideas - I'll try them both out: the
more strings to my bow the better! :)

As it happens, shortly after posting, I found the tool that I needed
for the script I had already built: imagecreatefromstring();

Following on from the example in my first post, now I can do

$im = imagecreatefromstring($photo);

which lets me

$photoWidth = imagesx($im);
$photoHeight = imagesy($im);
list($width, $height, $type, $attr) =getimagesize($im);
etc.,

Although Sean's point about using the filesystem to store images, and
the database to reference them, seems like a good one given the 2048k
limit I have on LONGBOOLs in MySQL...

Cheers all

--
Charlie

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