displaying temp image

[Talguy]

So I am trying is built a image editing and upload system for my server. What I want to do is for the image editor I want to display the image everytime the user crops, changes color, ect... but I want the temp image to be shown from memory not from the harddrive. I don't want temp files saved to the harddrive. The question is is it possible to do this.

[bradgrafelman]

Well.. probably.

You could create a script that runs in the background and stores the image into memory. It could open a socket and listen for connections on that port, and sleep until there's activity. You would open a connection to that local port, send some command like "get" or whatever, and it would output the data across the socket to the PHP script that the user is accessing.

Fairly complicated, and this is only in theory. So, a shorter answer would be: yes, it's probably possible, but no, I wouldn't recommend it over using temp files on the harddrive.

[Talguy]

thanks I have decided to use temp images saved to the hdd, no I am going to ask a new question so that I don't spam the board bc I post a lot. I want to know how the site preloadr.com makes it the user able to see the changes of the image in real time and how it might develop histograms for the images thatyou are editing

[bradgrafelman]

How? Using software provided by neximage. At least, that's what their website says.

[Talguy]

o wow i did not see that, but i would love to make something like it. I bet that there is a lot of js involved in it. I thought that js could not work with editing images that create.