Dynamic Thumbnail Generation

owainhunt

Here's the thing - I want people to be able to upload images to my site and then have a thumbnail of their wallpaper-sized image created and placed on a page. I have the upload section working, I just have no idea how or even if I can get the thumbnail generation section to work.

gushy

Read the PHP manual in the section regardng the GD library. You'll find all you need there.

It's actually quite simple. Try it out. If you get stuck, give us another shout.

-- Nick Gushlow

suzuki

why not something like (taken mostly from manual)

<body>
<?php
$handle=opendir('.');
while (false!==($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != "." && $file != ".." && preg_match( '/.jpg/i',$file) ) {
echo "<img src=$file width=100 height=100>\n";
}
}
closedir($handle);
?>
</body>

it doesn't look that nice, but it's easy and it works

Anon

You don't need to use GD or HTML imag tag shrink-down. Download ImageMagick right now. ImageMagick contains several converting and identify tools to manipulate image files. You can use exec() to invoke the convert tool in your PHP code.

http://www.imagemagick.org/

owainhunt

Cheers guys!