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[rrsub]

I'll start here because PHP can do just about anything.

I'm looking for a way to merge images dynamically. Basically I have several small images 50x50 px that I want to create a banner by adding the images together to create 1 image 250x50 px.

 

[sleipnir214]

If you have PHP's image functions available in your installation, PHP can do that.

Were I to try that, I would create a new blank image using imagecreatetruecolor(), then open the images I would want to merge to that blank image using imagecreatejpeg() to open the image files and imagecopy() to perform the copy.

Then I'd write the image to a file or the browser using imagejpeg().


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[ingresman]

Could you code the HTML page to have a table which downloads each small image ?

 

[rrsub]

You know sleipnir214, those image functions are pretty damn cool.

We've got some coders that are ASP and the plugin for ASP that does a quarter of what PHP does for manipulating images is $75.

We're doing this project in PHP.

 

[sleipnir214]

You'll find over time that PHP has lots of free features that are superior to equivalent for-pay functionality in VBScript/ASP.

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[rrsub]

I've been there a while ago. The problem is convincing others. This was a winner.

 

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