02-08-2011
Linux doesn't have a standard imaging solution like mksysb or flash archives. Linux has the underlying tools those use (like cpio, dump, etc) so you could script your own equivalent pretty painlessly, but personally I prefer one of the many imaging solutions out there such as clonezilla, mondo rescue, ping, etc.
But generally speaking most of the time that people want a gold image, what they're really talking about is a way to make automated identical builds painlessly. For this, kickstart is better/faster than imaging. Combine it with PXE booting and life is good.
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imagecreatefromstring
IMAGECREATEFROMSTRING(3) 1 IMAGECREATEFROMSTRING(3)
imagecreatefromstring - Create a new image from the image stream in the string
SYNOPSIS
resource imagecreatefromstring (string $image)
DESCRIPTION
imagecreatefromstring(3) returns an image identifier representing the image obtained from the given $image. These types will be automati-
cally detected if your build of PHP supports them: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, and GD2.
PARAMETERS
o $image
- A string containing the image data.
RETURN VALUES
An image resource will be returned on success. FALSE is returned if the image type is unsupported, the data is not in a recognised for-
mat, or the image is corrupt and cannot be loaded.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
imagecreatefromstring(3) example
<?php
$data = 'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABwAAAASCAMAAAB/2U7WAAAABl'
. 'BMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAASUlEQVR4XqWQUQoAIAxC2/0vXZDr'
. 'EX4IJTRkb7lobNUStXsB0jIXIAMSsQnWlsV+wULF4Avk9fLq2r'
. '8a5HSE35Q3eO2XP1A1wQkZSgETvDtKdQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==';
$data = base64_decode($data);
$im = imagecreatefromstring($data);
if ($im !== false) {
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
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}
else {
echo 'An error occurred.';
}
?>
The above example will output something similar to:[NOT DISPLAYABLE MEDIA]Output of example : imagecreatefromstring()
SEE ALSO
imagecreatefromjpeg(3), imagecreatefrompng(3), imagecreatefromgif(3), imagecreatetruecolor(3).
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