Well, you can't output HTML *and* an image in the same request. What you
can do is generate HTML in one script, put image tags in the HTML that
references a another script, which actually outputs the image.
So something like:
<img src="/myimage.php?id=4" width="10" height="30" />
Then in myimage.php you would output the correct headers (such as
"Content-Type: image/gif" for example) and output the raw binary data
that makes up the image.
You can probably glean a lot of useful information from the GD portion
of the manual:
http://www.php.net/gd
Chris
Dan Trainor wrote:
Hello, all -
I've seen a few times, albeit I don't know how, people generate images
on a page in different ways, such as maybe using base64 to output the
raw image data into a page? Is this correct?
If so, what does it "look" like? How would one go about doing this?
If not, what are my options to achieve something like this? What are
my alternatives? What kind of performance impact, if any, does this
make on both the load on the server and the rendering time for a given
image to the client? Last but certainly not least, is this a dumb idea?
What I'm looking to do is to deliver dynamic content to the browser,
without writing images to disk. I simply want what would be written
to disk, be displayed in a specific area I'm talking about.
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. Once I get a few more clues
here, I'll be able to figure the rest of this out pretty well, I'm
quite sure.
As always, thanks for the time
-dant
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