On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:52, Ray Hauge wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:41, Richard Lynch wrote: > > [NB: Ray said that...] > > > > > It's easy if the image is all that is on the page. > > > > Errrr. HTML and in-line images don't really work in a cross-browser > > compatible sort of way, and really mess with browser caching and page > > load times and are just such a Bad Idea that I didn't even consider > > that Ray might have meant "image inlined with HTML" > > > > I really (still) think Ray just meant: > > > > Cache and display the image in one operation without using a tempfile. > > > > Now that I think about it, you'd still want ob_start() if you want to > > cache and display the image inlined with HTML anyway, assuming you > > wanted to do something so foolish in the first place... > > > > -- > > Like Music? > > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > > Here's what I ended up doing: > <html> > ... > <img src='show_image.php?file=filename.pdf' /> > ... > </html> > > where show_image.php contains: > > <? > $path = "/path/to/files/"; > $filename = htmlentities($_GET['file']); > $img = shell_exec("convert {$path}{$filename}[0] png:-"); > header("Content-type: image/png"); > print($img); > ?> > > I could use a cache, but I haven't yet. It's for an internal intranet > application, so I'm not worried about page load times too much. With 10 > pdfs it still loads in about a minute, and I don't expect there to be many > more than 30 or so, and those PDFs will be moved after this application is > run anyway, so caching doesn't make sense for my situation, as images will > really only be shown once. If it was going to be used more caching would > definitely make sense though. > > Thanks for the input all. Basically I took the same principles applied to displaying images stored in a database. I figured it was obvious that's what I was saying, but figured clarification is always good. -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
