Kore Nordmann - PHP / Projects / Politics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Kore Nordmann :Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 12:23:38 +0200 :Copyright: CC by-sa ===================== Kores random thoughts ===================== - Published article "Image creation with PHP" I just published a article series on "Image creation with PHP" as my personal christmas present to the PHP community. This is a full guide, covering several libraries (DOM/SVG, Cairo, Ming/Flash, GD) and all the important topics. Read on for details... - Image creation with PHP - Image Tools There are several ways to create images or graphics with PHP. First there are some well known extensions, like ext/GD, or perhaps ext/ming everybody immediately remembers, when it comes to graphics generation. But there are several structural differences not in between the avaliable libraries, but also between the image formats you can create. This article series will give you some insight on the formats and libraries, and then shows how an abstraction layer could be build. This sixth part of the article finally covers additional tool classes which will proof helpful during image creation. - Image creation with PHP - Text rendering There are several ways to create images or graphics with PHP. First there are some well known extensions, like ext/GD, or perhaps ext/ming everybody immediately remembers, when it comes to graphics generation. But there are several structural differences not in between the avaliable libraries, but also between the image formats you can create. This article series will give you some insight on the formats and libraries, and then shows how an abstraction layer could be build. This fifth part of the article covers the complex topic of text rendering with all the backends. - Image creation with PHP - Integrating bitmaps There are several ways to create images or graphics with PHP. First there are some well known extensions, like ext/GD, or perhaps ext/ming everybody immediately remembers, when it comes to graphics generation. But there are several structural differences not in between the avaliable libraries, but also between the image formats you can create. This article series will give you some insight on the formats and libraries, and then shows how an abstraction layer could be build. This fourth part of this article, which describes the integration of bitmaps with the various backends. - Image creation with PHP - Gradient rendering There are several ways to create images or graphics with PHP. First there are some well known extensions, like ext/GD, or perhaps ext/ming everybody immediately remembers, when it comes to graphics generation. But there are several structural differences not in between the avaliable libraries, but also between the image formats you can create. This article series will give you some insight on the formats and libraries, and then shows how an abstraction layer could be build. This third part of this article makes the images a bit more colorful, by providing support for gradients in the graphics. - Image creation with PHP - A first shape There are several ways to create images or graphics with PHP. First there are some well known extensions, like ext/GD, or perhaps ext/ming everybody immediately remembers, when it comes to graphics generation. But there are several structural differences not in between the avaliable libraries, but also between the image formats you can create. This article series will give you some insight on the formats and libraries, and then shows how an abstraction layer could be build. This second part describes the generation of shapes and the basic drawing context. - Image creation with PHP - Formats & Libraries There are several ways to create images or graphics with PHP. First there are some well known extensions, like ext/GD, or perhaps ext/ming everybody immediately remembers, when it comes to graphics generation. But there are several structural differences not in between the avaliable libraries, but also between the image formats you can create. This article series will give you some insight on the formats and libraries, and then shows how an abstraction layer could be build. This first part of this article describes the various image formats and backends. - Arne hat eine Webseite Arne, mein Bruder, hat endlich wieder etwas, das man eine Webseite nennen kann. Momentan befindet sich dort ein Blogeintrag der eben diese ankuendigt, und eine Liste seiner gehaltenen Vortraege. Aber ich bin mir sehr sicher, dass da in naher Zukunft noch weitere interessante Inhalte folgen werden. - Evil bugs in your code From time to time I write some code snippets, which I find really hard to debug, and the code does not do, what it is expected to do. Especially when the code is not tested directly, but only executed in some a bit more complex environment. Those are 4 typical errors I introduced in my code, and spend some time debugging it, because I found them really hard to spot. Luckily, once I spotted the actual bug, I find it a lot easier the next time the typo occurs. Therefore I want to share those, so that I may save you some minutes of your life hunting stupid bugs. - Released kPortal successor: Torii After a quite long time, a lot of bug fixes and major changes, with several new features, modules and themes, I finally managed to release the successor of kPortal: Torii.