What are some alternative methods to animate images in PHP, especially for beginners?

One alternative method to animate images in PHP, especially for beginners, is to use the GD library functions to create a simple animation by displaying multiple frames of an image in sequence. This can be achieved by creating a loop that iterates through each frame and outputs it to the browser with a delay between each frame to create the animation effect. 

<?php
// Create an array of image file paths
$frames = ['frame1.png', 'frame2.png', 'frame3.png'];

// Set the delay between each frame in milliseconds
$delay = 100;

// Output the frames in sequence with a delay between each frame
foreach ($frames as $frame) {
    header('Content-Type: image/png');
    readfile($frame);
    usleep($delay * 1000); // Convert milliseconds to microseconds
}
?>

Keywords

GD library ImageMagick CSS animations jQuery canvas

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