[PHP] swf to jpg using ming/imagemagick?

[Michael Winston]

Hey-

I'm interested in taking a flash file and somehow extracting a frame 
of it, saving that frame as a jpg.

I see the swf and ming functions in the php docs but it appears that 
it cannot read an existing SWF.  Even if it could, I'm not sure how 
much help that would be.

I've also investigated using imagemagick for this,b ut no luck there, either.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks,
Michael
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[PHP] imagepsloadfont returns wrong datatype

[Michael Winston]

Hi-

I *finally* got imagepsloadfont() to work on my Mac OS X box (it 
helps if you actually have a .pfb file).  Now I'm having problems 
with another aspect of imagepsloadfont().  The docs say it should 
return an int, however it's returning a resource.

I'm guessing this is why imagestring and imagepstext aren't working - 
because they require an int for the font.

Is this a bug?  Am I doing something wrong?  Am I not understanding the docs?

Thanks,
Michael
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[PHP] imagepsloadfont on mac os x

[Michael Winston]

Hi-

I'm trying to get imagepsloadfont() to work.  I'm on OS X and know next 
to nothing about font types or how the Mac might handle them 
differently.

Basically, using the below code, I'm trying to call up Skia.dfont, one 
of the fonts that comes with OS X.  The code I'm using is straight from 
the manual, with my font path substituted:

?php
header (Content-type: image/jpeg);
$im = imagecreate (350, 45);
$black = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$font = imagepsloadfont (/Libarary/Fonts/Skia.dfont); // or locate 
your .pfb files on your machine
imagepstext ($im, Testing... It worked!, $font, 32, $white, $black, 
32, 32);
imagepsfreefont ($font);
imagejpeg ($im, , 100); //for best quality...your mileage may vary
imagedestroy ($im);
?

However, I get the message error loading font.  I've compiled 
--with-gd --with-t1lib, etc. so I know the command is recognized.

This is driving me nuts.  Any clues?

Thanks,
Michael
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[PHP] embedding PHP in MySQL

[Michael Winston]

I've been working on this for a few days and can't get it.

I would like to stick some php code into a sql databases and be able to 
evaluate it when it's called up.

Foe example, let's say there's some text in a table in MySql that says 
blah blah blah ? $mysql_query(SELECT * FROM X WHERE 1); 
$someothercode; ? blah blah blah blah blah.  I wan the end, 
displaying result to be: blah blah blah {executed php code} blah blah 
blah  blah.

Now, I know that eval() is involved, but I don't want it accidentally 
executing code outside the ?  ? so I need a way to pluck out bits 
of code, evaluate them, and put them back in.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Michael
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[PHP] htmlentities() and the macintosh character set

[Michael Winston]

Hello-

I have a request but don't know where to send it.  Thus, it ends up 
here.  Alternately, I'm looking for some solutions:

The request:  Can the macintosh character set be added as an option for 
htmlentities() and other commands?  That would be so helpful for our 
mac-based company.

The problem:  I'm fairly new to php and have found that the macintosh 
character set is pretty different from other standard sets, so when 
someone in our company enters an em-dash (an extended dash, that would 
be represented as emdash; in html) into our SQL database, browsers 
display it as Ñ (Ntilde;) because that's the correct mapping in other, 
standard sets.  Of course, I could do a replace on that character, but 
there are another 6 characters that I know of that will cause problems, 
and probably more beyond that.  The quick and good way is to convert 
with htmlentities(), but the mac charset is lacking.

Any suggestions how to fix this?

Thanks,
Michael
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