dynamic images

[Anon]

Hi all,

I've recently started playing around with creating images on the fly.

My problem is that I can't seem to pass variables into the image making script. ie:

<img src=rand_img.php?val=hello>

Is this actually possible or am I being a numnut? I suspect it might me something to do with having the header set to pick up images but I'm not sure.

If this isn't possible, could you offer any solutions?

Thanks for your help, Luke 😉

[Anon]

I know that the vars are being passed as I echoed them before setting the header status.

Why then does the image not accept the vars??

thanks

[Anon]

Luke,

How are you creating the image? The following bit of code (taken from the manual) creates a png image with the text specified.:

header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @ImageCreate (300, 50)
or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);
ImageString ($im, 1, 5, 5, "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
ImagePng ($im);

Are you doing something different? - Could you please paste the code you're using?

-mustafa

[Anon]

I've got it working now.... just needed to set global scope. DUHHH!! thanks anyway