[liphp] Re: Roadblock with GD support and PHP

[Tim Sailer]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:22:21PM -0400, Sean McCorkle wrote:
> > The system is running Linux 
> > www.therealmac.net/phpinfo.php has further information.  Apparently the 
> > host doesn't want to take the system down for any non-critical reason.  
> > Shrug :/
> 
>    Thats too bad.  I myself depend on the PHP GD routines for dynamic plots
>    and such.
> 
>    At some point, the admins will have to upgrade or something - perhaps the
>    subject can be broached again with them at that point.  In the meantime, 
>    what are your needs for graphics - are they truely dynamic, or can you
>    pre-prepare the images and then do static display afterwards?  I ask, 
>    because a friend here at BNL simply runs php as a compiler to pre-generate
>    html files (which are then served on an antiquated http server that he
>    can't upgrade - in fact, he does a whole html directory tree with one 
>    makefile).   Would that help you out?  (build your own copy of php and
>    keep it in your local ~/bin, and pregenerate image files, using chron
>    and or make, etc?)  I know its a clunky solution, but it might get you 
>    by until the real upgrade.

You could also build php the way you want, and install it as a local
cgi, and call it directly...

Tim

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