Re: GD graphics library

In message <[email protected]>
          Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

TBC, only some - for example 'echo $var;' works fine :) (or if it's the only
statement in a php block, <? echo $var ?> doesn't ever need the ';')

Yours,


Geoff.
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