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[_] Image uploader with animated gif's

Richard Davey rich at corephp.co.uk
Tue Jul 4 17:00:26 BST 2006

Dan Course wrote:


> But! ( as always ),
>
> When ever I try to make it upload an 'animated gif', they never play
> (sticks on the first frame). I've checked the file size, and the
> uploaded picture is about half the size (kb) which clearly shows it's
> missing the other frames. Has anyone else had this before, or has any
> suggestions as to what's going wrong, I'm using PHP?

You must be doing something to the image in your script to cause this,
because using the standard move_uploaded_files() function would preserve
any animation, byte for byte.

Are you reading the image in perhaps, saving it out, etc?

Cheers,

Rich
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