Re: [PHP] Including images from Internet

2001-12-30 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
Gaylen wrote: > Check the validity of the link. This is inherent to the process -- no need to worry - you just have to include some error fallback code in the process. > Check the size. If less than a particular size, then PHP will > resize/resample it and display a stndard Avatar sized icon.

Re: [PHP] Including images from Internet

2001-12-30 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
If you're really serious about implementing this, it can be done using socket functions and basically creating a crippled browser's functions to only retrieve files. If you want to go on in this direction, I'm able to help -- just let me know what details you need. Bogdan Gaylen Fraley wrote:

[PHP] Including images from Internet

2001-12-30 Thread Gaylen Fraley
Obviously, including an image from another page can be accomplished with an HTML tag. However, it seems that there are some inherent issues with doing this. How do you keep someone from linking a hi-res image and causing your browser to take forever to return, if you're on a dial-up? Is there s