PHP image handling class

PHP
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Is there a PHP image handling class like XMLWriter for RSS or MySQLi_STMT for databases?

2

If you have PHP 5.3+, check out Imagine; it’s quickly gaining ground to become the goto for image manipulation in PHP.

3

Just looked at Imagine, that seems pretty good and I’ll be using it.

If you don’t have PHP 5.3 then have a look at the functions here for native extensions for something lighter:

Image Processing and Generation (PHP Manual)