[TYPO3] GIFBUILDER: Error at require_once class.tslib_gifbuilder.php from BE

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote:
> I'm trying to use GIFBUILDER from a BE module to pre-generate some
> images that are going to be used later on the website.
> 
> The problem is that when I try to create an object of "tslib_gifbuilder"
> I need to do a require_once, as usually, but it doesn't work:
> require_once(t3lib_extMgm::extPath('cms').'tslib/class.tslib_gifbuilder.php');
> $gifCreator = t3lib_div::makeInstance('tslib_gifbuilder');
> 
> And I get the next error, just at require_once line:
> Fatal error: Class 't3lib_stdGraphic' not found
> in /var/www/mywebsite/typo3_src-4.1/typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_gifbuilder.php on line 102

require_once(PATH_t3lib . 'class.t3lib_stdgraphic.php');

> I don't see anything wrong in my code, but maybe it's not possible to
> create an instance of this class at backend.

GIFBUILDER is a frontend class. I do not think it will be easy to use in BE. Take a look at directly t3lib_stdGraphic instead.

Generally you should avoid use anything from tslib in Backend.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 Core team
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