RE: Creating image on-the-fly

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 1:22 PM
> To: Marc Guay
> Cc: php-general
> Subject: Re:  Creating image on-the-fly
> 
> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 16:05 -0400, Marc Guay wrote:
> 
> > > I was wondering if there was any way I can create an 
> image from some text
> > > with php?
> > 
> > Something like this?
> > 
> > http://sgss.me/obsolete/experiments/phpfontimagegenerator2/usage.php
> > 
> 
> 
> One thing to bear in mind is that this introduces extra server load if
> the image is generated dynamically for each visit to a page. It's best
> to save the image once it's first created and use that file 
> if it exists
> the next time round.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Some folks call this a "cache" ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache


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