Re: GD graphics library

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:18:22AM +0100, James Taylor wrote:
> On Thu 28 Jun, Matthew Somerville wrote:

> > I'm not sure if this has already been said, and apologies if it has, but PHP
> > for RISC OS (available from <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ajw498/> along with
> > a StrongHelp manual of the online manual available at
> > <http://www.php.net/manual/> and a webserver WebJames that handles Perl and
> > PHP) has GD support built in, is similar to Perl in many ways, and can be
> > used as simply as follows:

Hmm. It appears that his source zip does contain gd's source.

> Thanks, but it is the ways in which PHP is not similar to Perl which
> cause me to disfavour it. I'm sold on Perl and so would like to be

elseif
And all the builtins needing ()
Used it briefly, didn't like it because it was too close but not quite
there.

> able to use GD from Perl. Given that it has already been ported for
> use with PHP, I wanted to know how to get it working with Perl.
> Sadly this mailing list wasn't very forthcoming. I get the impression
> that Richard Proctor is the only other person still subscribed.

I'm still subscribed.
I'm also subscribed to rather a lot of other lists, and usually distracted
by bleadperl on unix. [aargh. Crays and UTS. aargh]

Nicholas Clark