[LammaDog]

Well,    we finally got around to installing the GD librarys on the Guardian Hosting servers.

I setup a simple image generater script to play with it.
It's so cool I just had to share  8^)

I didn't get too involved with it, but I'm hoping it will be a good primer for any of you that want to get started learning how to dynamically create images using the GD librarys.

Source and Explantion is included.

http://snippets.lammadog.com/gdimage1/

(Edited by LammaDog at 5:53 am on Mar. 14, 2002)

[iordy]

Interesting stuff.

Just out of interest could you load an existing image and then place text or another .png over the top?

We (work) once had a script running using script-fu (gimp scripting language) and perl to generate rollover menu buttons for a dynamic website. At the time I was still just a pure designer so I dont remember exactly how it went but I did think it was cool stuff.

[LammaDog]

Yeah, you can do that,    

instead of
$image = ImageCreate();
you'd use
$image = ImageCreateFromPng();

[The Neoracle]

Very useful indeed. One more reason GH rocks.

[Quik]

ditto. Just another reason why you should use guardianhosting.com
so many features.

[iordy]

Guardian Hosting, Assimilate Now!

Was this whole thread a subtle way of advertising? :)

[LammaDog]

Resistance is Futile!       haha

that's accually a good idea ilordy,    I should put a banner up at the tut page      hehe

[The Neoracle]

Naw, no advertising.  I'm not even on GH's servers yet but I've been trying to get my hosts to load these librarys but they refuse.