How to Install Ming, Plus some Cool Animations

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You must be wondering what is Ming, Right?

OK, its not another Chinese dish. Its actually a open source C library which is used to generate SWF(flash) files with the use of available code. Its easy. You don’t have to use Flash studio to create your animations, rather you can create any thing using simple code. Ming is also more powerful then any script when creating animations.

Obliviously, Ming needs to be installed on your server. You can do it , its an easy task… just follow these steps and every thing will work fine
[note] Ming is best installed as a module for PHP.

Start by downloading php_ming.so.gz, from http://ming.sourceforge.net/install.html. They just released Ming 0.4.0 RC1 on July 5th.
Next, uncompress it and then copy it to your php modules directory.
If you need help finding your php module directory try running php-config –extension-dir
You can also add the path to the ming module in your php.ini file instead.

Next either add ‘extension=php_ming.so’ to your php.ini file or insert ‘dl(‘php_ming.so’);’ at the head of all of your Ming scripts.

You will be amazed to see what ming can do. Just see these examples

http://jerryscript.hostrocket.com/php/ming/lessons/

http://www.gazbming.com/

http://redhot.pepper.jp/ming_php/sliderbar.html

http://redhot.pepper.jp/ming_php/starfield2.html

http://redhot.pepper.jp/ming_php/index.html

I hope you would like to learn it so you can create some cool animations.

Now if anyone asks you about Ming you can give them a lesson on it…Its fantastic.

If you want to know more about using php with Ming go to http://in.php.net

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