[PHP] Importing a GIF image and making it transparent

2001-08-21 Thread Ben Quinn
Hi all I've been trying to make a script that imports a GIF image from an external server (i have permission to do this, see below) and designates a certain colour transparent for some time now and i'm not having much luck. Can anyone help or provide a script that does this? The images i'm

Re: [PHP] Importing a GIF image and making it transparent

2001-08-21 Thread Chris Lambert
It doesn't look like you'll be able to use GD, as GIF support was dropped in 1.6 and JPEG support was only added in 1.8. You'd have to experiment with ImageMagick, or another command-line tool independent of PHP. /* Chris Lambert, CTO - [EMAIL PROTECTED] WhiteCrown Networks - More Than White

Re: [PHP] Importing a GIF image and making it transparent

2001-08-21 Thread David Robley
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:24, Ben Quinn wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks for the speedy reply. In the GD section here http://www.bsch.au.com/admin/phpinfo.php it says GIF support - enabled I'm starting to wonder though if PHP can do this? I looked up the imagecolourtransparent function on the PHP

Re: [PHP] Importing a GIF image and making it transparent

2001-08-21 Thread Ben Quinn
Thanks to those who replied, i finally worked it out - the script has been pasted below just incase anyone is sifting through the list archives looking for the same thing. One thing though, my server doesn't allow me to open a GIF file through HTTP - ie this doesn't work $image =

Re: [PHP] Importing a GIF image and making it transparent

2001-08-21 Thread Chris Lambert
Did you use quotes around the URL when trying to access the image? /* Chris Lambert, CTO - [EMAIL PROTECTED] WhiteCrown Networks - More Than White Hats Web Application Security - www.whitecrown.net */ - Original Message - From: Ben Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [PHP] Importing a GIF image and making it transparent

2001-08-21 Thread Ben Quinn
G'day Chris Yep i did, with this code $id = ImageCreateFromGif(http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR503.gif;); I get this error : Warning: imagecreatefromgif: Sockets are not supported for image type 'GIF' in /home/httpd/html/bsch/temp/monkey.php on line 5 Brick wall #9080982093848934 - but i