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T. ValentineDatabase-Driven Web Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5970-2_6

6. Images: Uploads and Scripted Manipulation

Thomas Valentine1  
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Selkirk, MB, Canada
 

It is entirely possible to edit or otherwise manipulate images that you upload to your server automatically. In this chapter, we’ll discuss not just image uploading but also image manipulation via scripted action.

As you’ll see later in this chapter, we’ll be using a handful of Perl modules to provide significant functionality. They are well written and work great – for what they’ve been designed to do.

To start, we must lay the groundwork, starting with some simple HTML markup.

Getting Started

The HTML code to allow a FORM control to upload an image is simple ...

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