A good image scaling program?

[D. Alvarado]

Hello,
Can anyone recommend a good image scaling program for PHP 4. What
I'm really looking for is just a function that takes an image file and
a width to which to scale the image and outputs the scaled image.

I am grateful for anyone's recommendations , - Dave

[Chris Hope]

Re: A good image scaling program?

D. Alvarado wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
> Can anyone recommend a good image scaling program for PHP 4. What
> I'm really looking for is just a function that takes an image file and
> a width to which to scale the image and outputs the scaled image.
>
> I am grateful for anyone's recommendations , - Dave[/color]

If you have imagemagick installed on the server that's an easy way to go.
There's also the GD library which may or may not be installed into PHP.

The GD functions are in the manual at http://www.php.net/gd

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[Geoff Berrow]

Re: A good image scaling program?

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contained the following:
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> Can anyone recommend a good image scaling program for PHP 4. What
>I'm really looking for is just a function that takes an image file and
>a width to which to scale the image and outputs the scaled image.[/color]


If you use the GD functions I'm not sure if there's a pre written
function that does it all.

First you get the dimensions of the uploaded image.
You need to derive the new image height by some simple maths

new height = (oldheight/oldwidth)*new width

Then use imagecopyresamp led to create the new image.

Lots of code examples about.
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[2metre]

Re: A good image scaling program?

D. Alvarado wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
> Can anyone recommend a good image scaling program for PHP 4. What
> I'm really looking for is just a function that takes an image file and
> a width to which to scale the image and outputs the scaled image.[/color]
$src and $tgt are absolute paths to the source file and new image.
$size will be the maximum dimension (either width or height) of the
reuslting rescaled image.
If size isnt given, it will be 150 pixels.


function createthumb ($src,$tgt,$siz e=150) {
// create new thumbnail !
$src_img = imagecreatefrom jpeg($src);
if ($src_img) {
// calc portrait or landscape
if (imagesx($src_i mg) < imagesy($src_im g))
$scale = imagesy($src_im g) /$size;
else $scale = imagesx($src_im g) /$size;
// calc thumbnail dimensions
$new_w = round(imagesx($ src_img)/$scale);
$new_h = round(imagesy($ src_img)/$scale);
// create empty image of correct size & copy/resize image into it
$dst_img = imagecreatetrue color($new_w,$n ew_h);
imagecopyresize d($dst_img,$src _img,0,0,0,0,
$new_w,$new_h,
imagesx($src_im g),imagesy($src _img));
imagedestroy($s rc_img);
// save thumbnail to file
imagejpeg($dst_ img, $tgt);
imagedestroy($d st_img);
}
else print "<div class=error>fai led to open $src</div>";
}

[Shawn Wilson]

Re: A good image scaling program?

"D. Alvarado" wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Can anyone recommend a good image scaling program for PHP 4. What
> I'm really looking for is just a function that takes an image file and
> a width to which to scale the image and outputs the scaled image.[/color]

Try hotscripts.com. But that's also pretty easy to write (at least for JPG and
PNG) using the GD library.

Shawn
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