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Originally Posted by ranger2kxlt

Works like a charm :-D love the hack...

question, why can't we link directly to the image? is there a way to do that? also what about making an add-on, so we can create images within our posts :-D

Thanks

You wouldn't want to link directly to the image because you'd really be linking to the PHP file that is generating the image on the fly. Just think about it.... if you have a 100 people viewing the same linked image then your server is doing 100 GD processes to create those images.

I put the message about no direct linking in there really for my benefit because I wouldn't want to kill my server. There is nothing stopping from you using the linked URL, but rather it's something you most likely wouldn't want to do.

In regards to inserting it directly into the posts, check out the link I gave for the VBT.com thread. The same end effect could be achieved without having to create a new image on the fly or even using GD at all.


If you guys/gals really want something that gets inserted directly into a post then let me know..... Romeo Tunes pointed me in the direction of something that most likely will be my next learning experiment that will do it but it will take a little bit of time for me to work on it.