Re: Help please!

>Hello, > I have a PHP script which gets data from a MySQL database and >returns an image. So <img src="getdata.php?id=3"> returns the image of >id 3 from the database. What I really want is to state width is 100 and >height is 100 for example so I do not have to downlaod the entire >picture and specify the width and height as part of the image: > > Do not want > <img src="getdata.php?id=3" width="100" height="100"> > > WHat I want > <img src="getdata.php?id=3&width=100&height=100"> > > WHich will be a lot quicker on the client side. > > I cannot make a permanent file to use when I get the information >from the PHP database due to server security, only a tmpfile which the >data can then be placed. But to use the image functions you need to >specify a filename. THere does not seem to be a way to get the filename >of a file pointer so how do I do it please? What *I* have found easiest is to store the image size with the filename in the database. So id=3 will also look up width/height. You may be able to use getImageSize() to get the info you need. NOTE: The size of the image DOWNLOADED to the client remains the same. PERIOD. Your scaling by 100 and 100 only does: 1. Scales the image on the CLIENT, after downloading the whole thing. 2. Tells the HTML layout how big a "hole" to leave until the image shows up. It never, ever, improves actual bandwidth. #2 *DOES* make the site 'seem' faster to the user, since they can read the text while waiting for the image. If your image is much larger than 100 x 100, and you are going to scale it anyway, you should look into scaling it on the server long, long before that HTML request comes in. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm