PHP's Image Generation Capabilites....

[James]

I have been told that PHP can generate images on the fly...does anyone know how this is done?
Also does anything special need to be set up on the server?

Thanks for your help!

[PeterW]

Yeah, you need GD which can produce jpeg, png, wbmp etc.
Most formats apart from GIF (Because of LZWs patent).
If you need GD for PHP 4, speak to me in the chat room or something..

[emke]

PHP is capable of that but you must have GD library installed and working with PHP. It can be found on:
http://www.boutell.com/gd/
It's pretty easy to generate images on the fly, I do it for graphs when I have data that needs to be analyzed. It takes the numbers from the database and creates nice looking graphs.
Hope this was of help.

[James]

Thanks for your help! I'll take a look at the URLs you gave me and hopefully find a solution.
Thanks again