Date: 12/08/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: no keywords

Here's what I'm thinking about doing, but I don't want to do it if it's going to run into a lot of slow response time for the client.

Let's say I want to create a dynamic map of a virtual town. I have a .jpg of the map (map.jpg) and I have a .jpg of a house (house.jpg). With GD, I know I can overlay that house to the right pixel coordinates on map.jpg. But let's say that I need to draw 10 house.jpg's on to map.jpg. Now let's add on top of that decent traffic where this is going on quite regularly.

Am I heading for disaster using the GD extension in this way? Am I better off considering Flash?

Right now, I'm at a quandry. To Flash or not to Flash with this part of my development. Obviously, doing it via flash would put all of the load on the client. But upon every click, it may require a new flash page. .swf files can sometimes take time to load.

So, I guess the question is who out there has experience with GD? Is it fast and effective considering a server with moderate traffic?

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