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If you want to know what made me translate Pgmarket to German read this ;-)

The redesign of www.Wein-Espresso.de is nearing completion.
The website is based on Pgmarket 2.0.3-de, but has been enhanced with a simple content management system and an interface to Telecash, a German creditcard aquirer.
The CMS extends the menubar, which normally only contains a link to the homepage an the username, with several links. This gives one the ability to add extra information very easily.
If someone is interested in it and Marco agrees, I will perhaps complete that function to integrate it into purther Pgmarket-releases.

The order process has been changed slightly: Before processing your order you will have to agree to the terms and conditions of the website-owner (this is necessary for German webshops). The company login has been completely removed, but as a replacement a user can add a company name to his user-information.

Anything left out? Why don’t you find out: www.Wein-Espresso.de

This site has been very quiet in the last weeks, so I think I should update you on my progress with phpWatermark.
My job kept me quite busy during the last weeks, so there hasn’t been much progress. Today I found some time to continue work on implementing the “logo feature”. My current development version (not available for download) is able to:

  • Read a logo image
  • put a logo image into another image

The current version still lacks the following:

  • Resize the logo if it is too big for the image which is to be marked
  • Merge the images unless the logo already has a transparent color
  • Put the logo to a chosen position on the target image (currently the logo is always put to the center of the target image)

I hope to get those TODOs solved during the next days/weeks (if time permits).

Several people mailed me, stating the phpWatermark doesn’t work for them, though they followed all instructions.
Well probably I should have stated more clearly (or at all?) that phpWatermark requires libgd support in your installation of php.

But this problems arises some questions for me, concerning the most needed advancements in phpWatermark. Currently I see three ways which could be followed for the next releases:

  • Better checking for required functions
  • imageMagick support (will also require netpbm or giflib)
  • Support for embedding images as a watermark (like company logos etc.)

This article contains a poll and I would really like you to vote for your most wanted next devel goal.
Thanks for using phpWatermark!

Thanks for all your downloads, comments and, first of all, for using phpWatermark. It’s great to see that someone is appreciating my work!

Of course phpWatermark is free for all uses - that’s why it’s published under the GPL license. But if you feel you should give something for using this class, either because you like it or perhaps you are even earning money with it, I would gladly accept a small donation via Paypal. Of course there are some ads on this websites, but obvously they don’t even pay the hosting costs.

phpWatermark 0.2 is ready for download.

What is phpWatermark?
phpWatermark is a php class aiming to provide a simple way of marking an image with a digital “watermark” to prevent unauthorized use.

What’s new?

The versions lets you decide, where the watermark should be put. You can define the position by choosing from nine pre-defined grid positions:

TL TM TR
CL C CR
BL BM BR

TL - Top left
TM - Top middle
TR - Top right
CL - Center left
C - Center
CR - Center right
BL - Bottom left
BM - Bottom middle
BR - Botton right

The current versions can be downloaded here:
phpWatermark-0.2.tar.gz
phpWatermark-0.2.zip

Thanks you for using phpWatermark!

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