Thumbnail Script

[cap97]

I'm trying to learn how to create thumbnails on the fly of larger images already stored on my server. The only tutorials I can find are for making photo galleries where the script creates thumbnails for everything in a directory. I just want to create a thumbnail (via a function of something) for the image I call out. Anyone have any tutorials they can point me to?

Mike....

[gat]

im an noobe, but i have done thumbnail script, so i think i may be able to help you.

the way i did mine was.
set up table im mysql called images or whatever.

i have pic_id, pic_area, pic_descrip, pic_path, thum_path.

the pic_path and thum_path hold the address's of the images.
e.g: http://localhost/images/whatever.jpg

then ill paste my code in, and you may be able to apply it to your own. The code automatically formats the thum images into a table for you.

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<?php
$conn= @mysql_connect("localhost","****","*****");
       or die("Err:Conn");

$rs= @mysql_select_db("kriminalyouth", $conn)
     or die("Err:Db");

$sql = "select * from images";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$num_results = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo "<images>\n";
echo "<table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='6' bordercolor='#000000'>";

for($i=0;$i<$num_results;$i++) 
{ 
  $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); 
  if(($i%6)==0)
  {
     echo "<tr>\n"; 
  }
  echo "<td>"; 
  echo "<a href=\"display.php?file=".$row['pic_path']."&pic_descrip=". $row['pic_descrip']."&pic_area=" . $row['pic_area']."\"><img src=\"".$row['thum_path']."\" border='0'></a>";
  echo "</td>\n";

  if (($i%6)==5)
  {
    echo "</tr>\n"; 
  }
}
  echo "</table>\n";
?> 

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hope this helps.

[cap97]

Thanks, but not exactly what I'm looking for. If I'm reading your script right, it requires you to upload a real image and a thumbnail image and then you just sort it by MySQL. I'm looking for a script that converts a large image to a thumbnail without uploading a seperate file.

(You also may want to edit your post and take out your username and password information in that db connect.)

Mike....