I am using the GD module to create an image and can get it to print directly to a web page using:

print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n";
print $im->gif;

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used as follows referencing an external CGI:

<IMG SRC="image.cgi">

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But if I use the image source as a sub-routine:

<IMG SRC="&image_routine">

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I get an ASCII printout on the page instead of the image.

So I would like to get the script to save the GD produced image as a file instead of outputting directly to the Webpage, but am having trouble getting it to work. I am using the following code:

$gif_data = $im->gif;
open (TEST,"$image_test") || die;
binmode TEST;
print TEST $gif_data;
close TEST

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The script runs fine, except the $image_test does not show.

Any ideas?

In reply to How to save an image (using GD) to a file by belize

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