Charlie somerville wrote:
You don't need to get that from a database! All you havve to do is put a lock on a file read the file, increment it write the file and take the lock off, easy!
Without knowing more about the OP's design how can you possibly determine whether a DB is or isn't the right implementation. Maybe the OP needs to generate images for 10,000 unique numbers, doing this with file operations would be incredibly slow compared to a DB. Or maybe the information is already stored in the DB to generate the numbers, so would you suggest pulling the info from a DB, storing it to a file, and then re-reading the file? Seems a bit silly... Besides the OP's question wasn't about getting the numbers it was about creating gifs....
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I want to write a CGI in perl that when called, grabs a number from a MySQL db or a file, increments it, writes the number back out, and then returns a GIF with that number. I want to have 10 separate GIFs, each one containing an image (that I have created to match the site design) of a number, 0-9. I need to be able to piece together any number of these GIFs from left to right into one large (relatively) GIF. I know how to do everything but actually create the GIF. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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