Liam Gibbs wrote: > print("<IMG ALT... HEIGHT... WIDTH... SRC = \"" . copy_pic($sourcepic) . > "\">"); > > So I'm calling the function straight from the SRC attribute of the IMG > tag. Here's what's in my function: > > function copy_pic($sourcepic) { > if(file_exists($sourcepic)) { > $destinationpic = imagecreatetruecolor(imagesx($sourcepic), > imagesy($sourcepic)); > imagecopy($destinationpic, $sourcepic, 0, 0, 0, 0, > imagesx($sourcepic), imagesy($sourcepic)); > } > > return $destinationpic; > } > > After this, I'm going to be tampering with the pic, but I just wanted to > make sure I'm getting something, which I'm not. All I get is a broken > image. No error message, no nothing. Please tell me I'm not overlooking > some really idiotic thing, but I'm just having one heckuva time with this. Not idiotic at all. You have to sort of "un-learn" something, and wrap your brain around a new concept. :-) You know how PHP spits out HTML? Yeah, well, PHP doesn't *just* spit out HTML. PHP can *also* spit out an actual JPEG. Like, it spits out what you would get if you opened up a JPEG in a text editor and you see all that gobbledy-gook. But to do this, you've *still* got to have it being spit out as *JUST* the image, in a separate file, the *same* as having a separate JPEG image file on the server which is not all that gobbledy-gook pasted into your HTML. Or, to put it this way: You currently have something like this all in one big file: <HTML><BODY> ... <IMG SRC=JPEG%(**&^#@@#R%GFGE#WWRYUIIUUYY**&%*&%$^&%$#%^#%$#%$^%$##@$@#%$^%> ... </BODY></HTML> But, a valid setup would have *TWO* files. One with: <HTML><BODY> <IMG SRC=otherfile.jpg></HTML> </BODY></HTML> otherfile.jpg would have the JPEG stuff in it: JPEG%(**&^#@@#R%GFGE#WWRYUIIUUYY**&%*&%$^&%$#%^#%$#%$^%$##@$@#%$^% So you need to move your copy_pic stuff and all of that to a DIFFERENT file, say "dynamic_jpeg.php". Your HTML will then have: <IMG SRC="dynamic_jpeg.php"> in it. Plus your dynamic_jpeg.php file will have to have this stuff at the end: header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); imagejpeg($destinationpic); PS: You may not be *SEEING* the error messages, because they are buried in the contents of what is supposed to be a JPEG. But if your JPEG looks like this: JPEG*(&*^*&^%^&% PHP Error: blah blah blah *&*&^%$$##@@#$%^^^ then it's just a broken JPEG, as far as the browser is concerned. So surf *DIRECTLY* to it when the browser shows you a broken image icon: http://sympatico.ca/dynamic_jpeg.php for example. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php