ImageCreateFromGif or fopen?

[Anon]

I'm trying to open gifs stored in the tmp directory via a database. Should I use ImageCreateFromGif or fopen? I've been having problems with ImageCreateFromGif. Could someone give me a reason/s why I'm unable to open a gif with ImageCreateFromGif.

[Anon]

What kind of problem ?

[Anon]

There's no problem now.

[Anon]

Brian,

How did you solve the problem you were having with fopen or ImageCreateFromGif?

I would like to create a gif and then put that gif in a directory on my server

I am having no problem creating the gif and having it show up in the browser, but how do I put that file onto the server?

ImageGIF($im);
//prints the image to browser

How do to put this image on the server?

Where do I put this code?

$file_name = "/www/domain.com/temp/test.gif";

$data = "the image";

$fp = fopen($file_name,"w");
fwrite($fp, $data); //write the data to the file
fclose($fp);