<p>I'm making a dynamic image for a forum that doesn't allow dynamic images.</p>

<p>I tried using .htacess to redirect all *.png files to image.png... which works perfectly, but from here I can't seem to be able to get the filename of the .png that was requested to generate the content. </p>

<p>For example:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>user puts in banana.png</p></li>
<li><p>htaccess forwards to image.php</p></li>
</ol>

<p>I need a way of getting that banana into my php script.</p>

<p>Using <code>$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']</code> and <code>$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]</code> just returns that of the PHP file.</p>

<p>Is there a way of redirecting it to <code>image.php?=bananana</code> for example?</p>

For SVN:  In commandline tool, there is the option
-x
which you can set to "
b
" or "
w
" to ignore space changes resp. all spaces.
You can also supply a third party tool for doing the merges. So if you have a merger which ignores whitespaces, you can use this one. 
TortoiseSVN, as always, is a frontend to all parameters, so it will support for ignoring whitespaces as well.
The svn merge command is described
here
. The option you need is
--diff3-cmd