On Mon, August 13, 2007 4:37 am, Nathan Wallis wrote:
> Just a follow up to my post about running an application server side
> and the
> introduction of sockets.
>
> My application is really just to modify a series of images on the
> server and
> combine them into a collage of images as a single file name. So I
> just say
> go and wait for it to build the final file, then it is done.
>
> So in this case are sockets an advantage? I really just want to start
> the
> application and let it go, without transferring data back and forth
> between
> PHP and the app.
>
> Any more help would be great.
Who is doing the waiting, and when, and just how long will they need
to wait?...
I suspect you are over-engineering this, and could just write a single
script to do the collaging and not even have it ever be in a file.
<img src="collage.php" />
<?php
//collage.php
//something not unlike this:
$files = array('1.jpg', '2.jpg', '3.jpg', '4.jpg', '5.jpg', '6.jpg');
$image = imagecreatetruecolor(600, 400);
reset($files);
for ($column = 0; $column < 3; $column++){
for ($row = 0; $row < 2; $row++){
$img = imagecreatefromjpg('/full/path/to/images/' . next($files));
imagecopyresampled($image, $img, $column * 200, $row * 200, 0,
0, 200, 200, imagesx($img), imagesy($img));
}
}
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
imagejpeg($image);
?>
We can't really tell you if you should use a daemon, a cache, or
whatever, unless you tell us more about the Big Picture of your
application.
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