Benefits of imagecreate ?

[Sama34]

(08-16-2012 02:34 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  And why would you do that?

Me? Because I already have the image created, I just paste the forum stats on it and save it to the cache directory, then, each time the file is accessed the code first check if the file exists and when was it created, if it doesn't exists or the time is too long ago, then it recreates it.

Stats are suppose to be changing frequently, it would be crazy to manually create each image every ten minutes.