webpage Thumbnail generation technology - linux based

gundamz

Hi all,

i had heard of thumbnails.org that provide service to help produce webpage like thumbnail out.

i am looking for alternative method to maintain a set of webpage thumbnail other than subscribing to a service.

how does site like the following generate their thumbnail?
do you know where i can buy ready made thumbnail script?

http://hostproject.com/category/budget/2
http://www.blogwise.com/search?q=country:27

thorpe

there would be heaps of these made with php. either download the manual from http://php.net and start learning. or maybe search over at www.hotscripts.com to see if there is one ready made.

Bloodwine

I use ImageMagick which is available for Linux and the BSD's (as well as other OS's I am sure).

I'm sure you could some tricks with the PHP and GD library, but ImageMagick is awesome when it comes to resizing AND converting images between formats.

You can have a person upload a .BMP file and have it resized and converted to a JPG (or TIFF -> JPG, or JPG -> GIF, or GIF -> JPG, or ... well, you get the point!!)

To use it within PHP, just exec() it.

ImageMagick is comprised of several programs (convert, mogrify, etc.) ... I usually just use convert.

ImageMagick homepage:
http://www.imagemagick.org/

Article on using ImageMagick with PHP:
http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/php-imagemagick.php
(that was just the first one that popped up when I googled for "ImageMagick PHP")