imagecreatefromgd
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function myImageCreateFromGif($file_or_url) {
$dummy_file = "/tmp/dummy.gif";
# if this is
a url, use fopen to get the file data, then
# save it to a
dummy file
if (preg_match("/(http|ftp):\/\//i",
$file_or_url)) {
# open the file using fopen, which
supports remote URLs
$input = fopen($file_or_url,
"rb");
# read the contents of the
file
# will accept files up to 10Mb, but will probably
get
# and EOF before that, we have to do it this way
because
# filesize isn't designed to work with URLs.
sigh.
$image_data = fread($input, 10000000);
fclose($input);
# write the contents
to a dummy file
$output =
fopen("$dummy_file", "wb");
fwrite($output, $image_data);
fclose($output);
# create the gif from the dummy
file
$image =
ImageCreateFromGif($dummy_file);
# get rid of the
dummy file
unlink($dummy_file);
}
# if it's not a URL, we can simply open the image
directly
else {
$image =
ImageCreateFromGif($file_or_url);
}
if
($image) { return $image; }
else { return 0;
}
}
if (!$url) { $url = "http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/images/cornholio.gif";}
$image
= myImageCreateFromGif($url);
if ($image == "" || $image
== 0) {
print "No Image data was
returned...
\n";
}
else {
header("Content-Type: image/gif\n\n");
ImageGif($image);
}
?>
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