Thank you for your comments Ken, What I'm looking for in this case _is_ dynamic generated images and not really static files (generated by GD).
But if I'm ever to use that kind of functionality - I know what to do (now) :) Dave pretty much got my scenario covered in his mail, so I'll be trying that today. Best regards Nicolai > > I would like to add some dynamic generated graphics to my > site and find GD being the one to use. However I'm not sure > _how_ to use it on my pages. > > > > I use HTML::Mason for content management and I am very > happy and truly amazed of the powers in Mason, but when I > tried adding some GD it got me puzzled. > > > I've never used Mason, but I do use GD in my current project for > drawing dynamic images. I have a straight-up mod_perl handler that > gets the arguments required for drawing the image. It creates the > image and writes it to a temporary directory (in something like > "/tmp/foo/images/"). I then use Template Toolkit to create an HTML > page that has an <img> tag pointing to the temporary file. The temp > directory been aliased into my httpd.conf as something like > "/images/foo/". I have a cron job that deletes old images. > > Before coming up with the above solution, I was actually passing the > arguments to a separate handler that printed out the image dynamically > (i.e., never writing it out to disk). My <img> tag pointed to this > handler, and it sent a header of "image/jpeg" (or "image/png" or > whatever) and then printed the output of GD->jpeg (or png or > whatever). This solution proved not to be the optimal solution for > other unrelated reasons, but you can do it this way, too.
