Re: Thumbnails in database
| From: | Toby Irmer | Date: | Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:57:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Thumbnails in database | ||
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http://www.sum-it.nl/en200319.php3
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Create thumbnail
a.. Cropping and scaling a photo is surprisingly easy with PHP.
b.. Unfortunately the functions imagecreatetruecolor() and
imagecopyresampled() exist only since PHP 4.0.6 using GD 2.0.1. Older PHP
version supports the functions imagecreate() and imagecopyresized(), which
are good enough to do the job.
c.. It is possible to generate a thumbnail on the fly, in RAM memory,
using ob_start() and ob_end_clean(). That saves unnecessary fumbling around
with temporary files.
d.. ...
</quote>
hth
toby
> I am storing some images in a database. No problems there.
> But how can I create a thumbnail do store in the db also
> without having to create the thumbnail image on the
> file system first?
>
> Kind regards
> Kevin