Moving from ASP to PHP: Image questions

[Giggle Girl]

Overall Background:
I am in charge of migrating an already-made Content Mangement System
from ASP to PHP. I do not know PHP -- yet! I am trying to foresee
potential issues, and here is one.

Image Specific Background:
The ASP version of the CMS uses a 3rd party component to accept the
uploading of images, and then to resize them so that thumbnails are
made (as well as the original image) for photo albums.

From what I have researched, new releases of PHP have image

manipulating abilities built-in to the language. But most of what I
have seen is "real-time" conversion where the PHP spits out a stream of
manipulated images. I want to be able to make a thumbnail for each
image, which will be saved to the server, and then reference this
thumbnail in a database.

Can someone point me to code that relates to this?

Or offer their thoughts on this? Any forseeable problems, especially
related to File Writing (making a new image) or shortcomings of
built-in image manipulation capabilities? (In the 3rd party ASP version
we had to get a really old version of a component that allowed GIF
manipulation, due to licensing issues, for instance.)

Any thoughts from PHP developers are appreciated!

Thanks,
Ann

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Giggle Girl wrote:
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From what I have researched, new releases of PHP have image
manipulating abilities built-in to the language. But most of what I
have seen is "real-time" conversion where the PHP spits out a stream of
manipulated images. I want to be able to make a thumbnail for each
image, which will be saved to the server, and then reference this
thumbnail in a database.

Can someone point me to code that relates to this?

1. http://www.google.com/search?q=php+thumbnail
2. http://www.sum-it.nl/en200319.php3

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[JDS]

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:30:48 -0800, Giggle Girl wrote:

In the 3rd party ASP version
we had to get a really old version of a component that allowed GIF
manipulation, due to licensing issues, for instance.

GIF Licensing issues are moot anymore:

http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw

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[Colin McKinnon]

Giggle Girl wrote:

Overall Background:
I am in charge of migrating an already-made Content Mangement System
from ASP to PHP.
You might find asp2php helpful (http://asp2php.naken.cc/)

From what I have researched, new releases of PHP have image

manipulating abilities built-in to the language. But most of what I
have seen is "real-time" conversion where the PHP spits out a stream of
manipulated images. I want to be able to make a thumbnail for each
image, which will be saved to the server, and then reference this
thumbnail in a database.

There's lots - try searching for PHP & thumbnails at freshmeat.net.

If you're running on Linux, there are lots of CLI based tools which will do
the job a lot better than I could using the GD library. Invoking shell
based programs (and their availabilty) is not so good on a MS platform
though. Last time I checked, the GD lib still doesn't do GIF saving - but
PNG gives better compression and supports larger pallettes anyway.

HTH

C.

[Webmontreal.com]

I use gd lib
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php
Make sure your host installs it.

[Raqueeb Hassan]

> I use gd lib

Well, same here ... and I guess, png is doing lot better than what gif
does!

I want to be able to make a thumbnail for each
image, which will be saved to the server, and then reference this
thumbnail in a database.

gd will help you in that regard.

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[Raqueeb Hassan]

> I use gd lib

Well, same here ... and I guess, png is doing lot better than what gif
does!

I want to be able to make a thumbnail for each
image, which will be saved to the server, and then reference this
thumbnail in a database.

gd will help you in that regard.

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Raqueeb Hassan
Bangladesh