To prove that it works. My infamous spinning logo example that everyone has seen 10 times...
http://conf.php.net/pres/slides/intro/flash_ming.php The phpinfo() with the configure flags are here: http://conf.php.net/info.php libswf is compiled in directly and ming.so is built externally and loaded in via php.ini. -Rasmus On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Richard Lynch wrote: > Please Cc: me as well... > > I'm having the devil of a time getting Ming and/or libswf to do a Bitmap... > > > Short version: > What's the most stable PHP+Ming version-compatible combo I can achieve? > > I don't care about anything else for this build, not even MySQL, just > PHP + Ming. Or libswf, if it's better. > > > > > Moderate version: > > In particular, I need SWFBitmap to do something other than segfault > or spew out SWF error messages about SWFCharacter or not being able > to understand perfectly valid JPEG/DBL files. > > I'd also settle for "Use libswf" if I could get that to do a bitmap > without segfaulting either. > > Note that I *can* get non-bitmap Flash examples to work in Ming, so > I'm not screwing everything up here. And, yes, I did read the docs > about the changes to SWFBitmap arguments of filename versus file > handle/data-stream. segfault or error messages, take your pick. > > > > Long version: > > Started with 4.1.2 (the one with the icky-looking phpinfo() bug) and Ming 0.2a > > I'm not completely unsuccessful in getting them to "work" -- I can > get the square red spinning example from, errr, the PHP Manual > user-contributed notes to work. So ming itself got compiled in okay > (--with-ming = /usr/src/ming) > > But then I plop in Rasmus' spinning PHP logo bitmap from slide > 30-something of the Spinal Injection at http://conf.php.net and I get > a segfault. :-( > > I've tried switching to/from the new/old style of handing SWFBitmap a > file handle, or the actual contents of the file, or the *name* of the > file, and can achieve a nice error message from Ming that it can't > figure out what kind of file yoya (with umlats -- the first 4 chars > in a JPEG) is, and similarly about "dbl2" for a DBL file, whatever > that is. (Never heard of a DBL file before today and don't know how > to view one, but I used Ming's png2dbl utility on a PNG that looks > okay to me...) > > I've tried libswf, and it also seems to segfault on attempts to do a > bitmap -- though I admit I'm not at all sure I'm calling the > functions properly. Am I supposed to just make up numbers for the > unique objid inputs, or do they have some kind of internal meaning to > Flash that I'm just supposed to intuit or what? Neither library > seems very PHP-ish, but I can at least grok the Ming lib. At any > rate, I can achieve valid Flash files without bitmaps in libswf as > well, but as soon as I touch a bitmap, Bam!, segfault. > > Anyway, the Ming docs mention that you have to have a standard > 0-frame JPEG or somesuch... I've tried both JPEG 6.0 and QuickTime > JPEG from GraphicConverter, and I verified that I did *not* do the > progressive thang there... > > Still, I don't claim to understand that buffer-0 JPEG bit of the Ming > manual at all... > > But, since I used Ming's png2dbl tool to generate the DBL file,. and > it doesn't like that either: Same results -- I can segfault or it > can bitch it's not an SWFCharacter, or it can bitch that it doesn't > know what kind of file that DBL2 file is. So I'm pretty sure it's > not just a bad JPEG, and there truly is something broken about > SWFBitmap in 4.1.2 with Ming 0.2a > > I've been trying to compile with 4.0.4pl1, mostly cuz I had it handy already. > > After hand-editing the ~/ming/php_ext/Makefile to have the hard-coded > include paths for /usr/local/include/php/[main|Zend|TSRM] I got it to > compile, albeit with tons of some semi-serious compiler warnings. > Must have been worse than semi-serious, though, as the resulting > php_ming.so yields: > undefined symbol: VCWD_FOPEN > > At this point, I'd be happy to have somebody just point me to what > they consider the most stable versions of PHP+Ming, I think, but I'll > take any advice at all... > -- > Got Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
