I added a section of the site where the images are dynamically generated by GD. The way I was populating the images was making the src="nameofperlscript.pl?node=image&file=blah". However, since the script to create the images and the webpage is the same it seems silly to have to call the script again (especially since some pages have more than one dynamic image). I would like to load it all in one shot. Is there a way to actually passed the image data directly?

Have the script write the images out to files, and then put the generated image URLs in your HTML? Add a cron job to clean up old images every so often and all done.

In reply to Re: Dymanically Generated Images in Website by adrianh
in thread Dymanically Generated Images in Website by debiandude

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