On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Kyle Barrow wrote:
> While PHP does a magnificent job at creating 8-bit PNGs, lack on GIF
> support on the PHP servers where the application will eventually run,
> kills PHP as an option as I am also branching i-mode and WML/HDML
> content.
IMO this is just shitty service from the ISP. GIF support (among
JPG and PNG) is one of the most basic building blocks of many PHP
applications. Unisys patent issue sholdn't be an issue out of US.
If the ISP didn't have support for that or didn't include the
support after asking them I would just move my money elsewhere.
There are some problems with GD though. The quality of images
scaled down with ImageCopyResized() is not too good. The results
usually look quite pixelated. I have been using two different
solutions for that problem.
1) patched GD extension for PHP which includes a resize function
with bicubic interpolation: ImageCopyResizedBicubic()
2) a new extension called php_imlib. This extension has richer
set of features for modifying images. The extension is still
in early states of development (current release is 0.3). It
seems quite stable though.
http://mmcc.cx/php_imlib/
You need to be able to have full access to the server to use
these options or ISP willing to compile them in though...
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Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
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Received on Wed Aug 22 10:31:03 2001