create and display many GD images on the fly

[scrupul0us]

basically... i want to be able to loop through many images made by GD on the fly and inserted in anchor tags

ive tried this:

<?php
//header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(110, 20)
or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
$img = imagepng($im);

echo "<img src=\"$img.png\" />";

imagedestroy($im);
?>

but all i get is the image code (if u opened it in say notepad) and then a broken image tag

the little things kill me

thanks

[wilku]

No, it doesn't work like that. One image has to be an output from one script (let's call it picture.php). Then on the page where you want multiple images you call that script many times (probably with different parameters):

echo "<img src=\"picture.php?some=parameters\" />"; //in a loop maybe with changing parameters

and in picture.php:

<?php 
header("Content-type: image/png"); //send header for this one picture
$im = @imagecreate(110, 20) 
or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream"); 
//change image according to GET parameters
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0); 
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91); 
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "A Simple Text String", $text_color); 
imagepng($im); //output your picture to browser

imagedestroy($im); 
?>