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check it out here

example
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What you see here or within our addon example site is available to you!]]>mailer addon updateinfo@baredog.comaddon2008-04-03T22:05:31+13:00http://www.baredog.com/baredog.content/weblog_files/bf6eff9a22b84bb3eff9041889778885-4.php#unique-entry-id-4http://www.baredog.com/baredog.content/weblog_files/bf6eff9a22b84bb3eff9041889778885-4.php#unique-entry-id-4mailerWhen we host your site, a cron job (geek talk for a scheduled task) can be set up to auto send emails in batches. This allows the mailer list to be scalable for both small customer lists and large lists to handle 1 email to over 1000's]]>using php to generate transparent thumbnailsinfo@baredog.comcode example2008-03-25T11:08:27+13:00http://www.baredog.com/baredog.content/weblog_files/05f2f1bb5edb53a3f624ed7a550a9931-3.php#unique-entry-id-3http://www.baredog.com/baredog.content/weblog_files/05f2f1bb5edb53a3f624ed7a550a9931-3.php#unique-entry-id-3
This works and has only been tested with *.PNG files only. The important bit is to use the imagecreatetruecolortransparent() function detailed below, instead of php's standard imagecreatetruecolor(). The new function does a similar thing, but also creates a new image with an actual transparent background and not a specific colour (normally black and then try to filter that colour out)...

Just try it, it works great...

$w = 50; //width
$h = 50; //height
$srcFile = ""; //selected file

$dest = imagecreatetruecolortransparent($w, $h);
$src = imagecreatefrompng($srcFile);

imagecopyresampled($dest, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $w, $h, $size[0], $size[1]);

return $dest;

function imagecreatetruecolortransparent($x, $y)
{
$i = imagecreatetruecolor($x, $y);
$b = imagecreatefromstring(base64_decode(blankpng()));
imagealphablending($i, false);
imagesavealpha($i, true);
imagecopyresized($i, $b ,0 ,0 ,0 ,0 ,$x, $y, imagesx($b), imagesy($b));
return $i;
}

function blankpng()
{
$c = "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoCAYAAAC";
$c .= "M/rhtAAAABGdBTUEAAK/INwWK6QAAABl0RVh0U29m";
$c .= "dHdhcmUAQWRvYmUgSW1hZ2VSZWFkeXHJZTwAAA";
$c .= "DqSURBVHjaYvz//z/DYAYAAcTEMMgBQAANegcCBNCg";
$c .= "dyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAgTQoHcgQAANegcCB";
$c .= "NCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAgTQoHcgQAAN";
$c .= "egcCBNCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAgTQoHcgQ";
$c .= "AANegcCBNCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAgTQ";
$c .= "oHcgQAANegcCBNCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAADXoHAg";
$c .= "TQoHcgQAANegcCBNCgdyBAAA16BwIE0KB3IEAA";
$c .= "DXoHAgTQoHcgQAANegcCBNCgdyBAgAEAMpcDTTQWJ";
$c .= "VEAAAAASUVORK5CYII=";
return $c;
} ]]>album addoninfo@baredog.comaddon2008-03-17T00:08:19+13:00http://www.baredog.com/baredog.content/weblog_files/ab956af310bd5f69f35328bc67bb50ad-2.php#unique-entry-id-2http://www.baredog.com/baredog.content/weblog_files/ab956af310bd5f69f35328bc67bb50ad-2.php#unique-entry-id-2albumWe have now enhanced the album caching so you don't have to keep requesting flickr for the photos every time you want to view another album. Now each album will load faster when 'reopening' it or opening albums with photos opened previously ]]>new addonsinfo@baredog.comaddon2008-03-12T20:29:50+13:00http://www.baredog.com/baredog.content/weblog_files/7bc8e51d21df0d2120ca09b9bb71d8ba-1.php#unique-entry-id-1http://www.baredog.com/baredog.content/weblog_files/7bc8e51d21df0d2120ca09b9bb71d8ba-1.php#unique-entry-id-1admin
- admin addon
- album addon
- event addon
- mailer addo
- shop addon
- snippet addon

They are all still work in progress so any thoughts and comments are much appreciated.. flick us an email at info@baredog.com

cheers]]>