[RESOLVED] help with imagejpeg()

mikawhat

I'm using imagejpeg() to display a resized image, however i've noticed that the php file can't contain anything else in order to display the image. How it's possible to create a page displaying several thumbnails by using imagejpeg()??

bpat1434

Well, you'd have to have an image processing script (like image.php) and call that with a $_GET variable for a specific image, which is used as the "src" attribute of the <img> tag.

<img src="/path/to/my/image.php?img=1024" />

Then in your image.php page, you have to determine which image is requested (via $_GET['img']) and resize and output properly.

Alternatively, you could use a second parameter in imagejpeg() to save the resized image somewhere and use that literal image instead of a dynamic one like explained above.

mikawhat

yes i've tried the second way and there's no problem with that. I was just looking for a way to avoid creating thumbnail images to save some space on the server. But is much easier than the first way so i think i'm gonna use that one... thanks!

bpat1434

Well, with the two methods, you have to weigh things out.

1.) Can you afford more stress on the server to create the dynamic images each time the thumbnail page(s) is/are visited?
2.) Can you afford the space for the thumbnails?

With todays server prices, I can't see why you wouldn't be able to just put the thumbnails on the server, but if you really wanted to, you could create them dynamically. Although the more images at once, the harder the server's resources are hit. So you have to be careful.

mikawhat

i'll stick to the second option. I'll just have to create a script to create those thumbnails for the existing products. Thank you again.

Weedpacket

Yah; storage is cheap. 1GB is enough to store over a hundred million thumbnails, and given today's hard drives and their prices that's piddling small change. Just took a quick look at one manufacturer and their 1TB model is going for US$300. That's 30¢/GB.

Time is where the costs are.