Hi,
My Summer of Code proposal to work on the AppDB wasn't accepted, but I still wish to do some of the things I listed.
Anyway, I was looking at the code for image handling, and I see it is written for GD 1. Thus, any image which has to be resized gets cut down to 256 colors, and is simply resized instead of being resampled, which makes the image blocky.
According to the PHP manual, these better functions require PHP 4.0.6 and GD 2.0.1 or higher. Is the AppDB server really running such an old version of PHP that this is required?
--Mitchell Mebane