I'll chime in here
Since you asked about CGI I'll discuss that and not mod perl, which,
had you asked for info on, I'm sure Chris Devers would have set you
away from here.
The Learning Perl book is a fine book but I wouldn't recommend it for a
beginner specifically wanting to learn CGI (I d
Hi all,
I need have my CGI scale images on the server, and I was wondering
whether there is a "standard" perl module that can do that (and possibly
other image manipulation tasks). I am looking for one that:
- is easy to understand and use
- is likely to be already installed on the server or so w
The best module that I know of for scaling is Image::Magick. I didn't find
the docs very easy to navigate, but it does a very good job.
[Very light documentation]
http://search.cpan.org/~jcristy/PerlMagick-6.02/Magick.pm
[Additional docs]
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/perl.html
The code you wa
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Ingo Weiss wrote:
> I need have my CGI scale images on the server, and I was wondering
> whether there is a "standard" perl module that can do that (and
> possibly other image manipulation tasks).
Have you looked at the Imagemagick suite, or Image::Magick, the Perl
interfa
Hi,
I was wondering: When writing CGIs that write to a data fle, do we need
to be concerned about the case where one CGI instance opens, modifies
and changes a data file while it's still open from another CGI instance,
creating version problems? Or is this somehow taken care of?
Ingo
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