Code Explanation

[BenKen]

Hi guys, please can someone please explain how this code works. The code is shown below . Thanks.

function copyImage($srcFile, $destFile, $w, $h, $quality = 75)
{
    $tmpSrc     = pathinfo(strtolower($srcFile));
    $tmpDest    = pathinfo(strtolower($destFile));
    $size       = getimagesize($srcFile);

    if ($tmpDest['extension'] == "gif" || $tmpDest['extension'] == "jpg")
    {
       $destFile  = substr_replace($destFile, 'jpg', -3);
       $dest      = imagecreatetruecolor($w, $h);
       imageantialias($dest, TRUE);
    } elseif ($tmpDest['extension'] == "png") {
       $dest = imagecreatetruecolor($w, $h);
       imageantialias($dest, TRUE);
    } else {
      return false;
    }

    switch($size[2])
    {
       case 1:       //GIF
           $src = imagecreatefromgif($srcFile);
           break;
       case 2:       //JPEG
           $src = imagecreatefromjpeg($srcFile);
           break;
       case 3:       //PNG
           $src = imagecreatefrompng($srcFile);
           break;
       default:
           return false;
           break;
    }

    imagecopyresampled($dest, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $w, $h, $size[0], $size[1]);

    switch($size[2])
    {
       case 1:
       case 2:
           imagejpeg($dest,$destFile, $quality);
           break;
       case 3:
           imagepng($dest,$destFile);
    }
    return $destFile;

}

[Atli]

Hey.

What exactly are you having trouble understanding?

The code basically:

• Fetches info on the source and destination files.
• Creates a blank image object that can be copied into.
• Fetches the source image as a image object.
• Re-sizes, re-samples and copies the source image into the blank image object.
• Saves the formerly blank image to the destination file.