https://github.com/norm/image-placeholder

Placeholder image generation
https://github.com/norm/image-placeholder

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Placeholder image generation

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/norm/image-placeholder
• Owner: norm
• Created: 2010-10-29T10:09:11.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-11-02T23:23:32.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-23T20:04:54.415Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Perl
• Homepage: http://ima.gs/
• Size: 121 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.markdown

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Image Placeholder

=================

A library, command-line script and website for generating placeholder images.

See [ima.gs][] for the online version that uses this code.

p5-Image-Placeholder

--------------------

Perl library, available from [CPAN][]. Comes with a command-line script, used

like so:

    placeholder --background-color=999 400x300 > test.png

To install this, you will need to be running perl (at least 5.10), and to

install it either using the standard `cpan` command, or better yet [cpanm][]

like so:

    cpanm --sudo Image::Placeholder

Deploying as a website

----------------------

If you want to run your own installation of this:

* inside your corporate firewall so as not to leak HTTP_REFERER values out into the internet

* within a [fort][] or other structure without internet access

* on your laptop

* as another competitor in the highly lucrative online placeholder market

you will need to be running perl (at least 5.10), and to install a bunch

of modules from cpan. I'd recommend using [cpanm][], like so:

    cpanm --sudo                                \

        Modern::Perl                            \

        GD                                      \

        Plack                                   \

        Plack::Middleware::Expires              \

        Moose                                   \

        MooseX::FollowPBP                       \

        MooseX::Method::Signatures

Once those are installed, clone this repository, `cd` into it and run the

command:

    plackup -Ilib placeholder.psgi

which will run it on port 5000.

Check the [Plack][] website for more information on the various ways of

deploying Plack powered websites.

[ima.gs]: http://ima.gs/

[CPAN]:   http://search.cpan.org/dist/Image-Placeholder/

[fort]:   http://devfort.com/

[cpanm]:  http://cpanmin.us/

[Plack]:  http://plackperl.org/