PHP Graphics Handbook

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PHP is an insanely popular, easy-to-learn language that you can use to create dynamic webpages in double-quick time. Whether the PHP webpage you create is for business or pleasure, you obviously want your webpage to be as attractive as possible. In the PHP Graphics Handbook, we show you cunning graphical techniques that will make your website stand out from the crowd. The book teaches you how to apply all of the following techniques on the fly using your PHP code: Creating new image files in various formats and drawing on blank images; Merging, blurring, cropping, copying and cutting-up images; The most effective ways to generate thumbnails and store images; Manipulating color, grayscaling and duotone, adjusting brightness; Adding transparency, soft and hard shadows, and watermarks; How to add text to images: handling fonts and text layout; How to create professional-looking charts and graphs.

  • Cost: $27.99
  • Pages: 300
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • ISBN: 1861008368

Resource Specification

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PHP : Books

Title / Program Name:

PHP Graphics Handbook

URL:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861008368/bigwebmasters-20

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Released Date:

February 25, 2003

Cost:

$27.99

List Price:

$39.99

Pages:

300

Edition:

1st edition

ISBN:

1861008368

Publisher:

Wrox Press Inc

Author:

Jason E. Sweat, Allan Kent, Mitja Slenc

Keywords:

php image files, php merging, php blurring, php cropping, php thumbnails, php transparency

Summary:

Learn to create images on the fly with PHP

Description:

PHP is an insanely popular, easy-to-learn language that you can use to create dynamic webpages in double-quick time. Whether the PHP webpage you create is for business or pleasure, you obviously want your webpage to be as attractive as possible. In the PHP Graphics Handbook, we show you cunning graphical techniques that will make your website stand out from the crowd. The book teaches you how to apply all of the following techniques on the fly using your PHP code: Creating new image files in various formats and drawing on blank images; Merging, blurring, cropping, copying and cutting-up images; The most effective ways to generate thumbnails and store images; Manipulating color, grayscaling and duotone, adjusting brightness; Adding transparency, soft and hard shadows, and watermarks; How to add text to images: handling fonts and text layout; How to create professional-looking charts and graphs.

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