RE: [PHP] thumbnails and captions?[Scanned]

I'd use GD to dynamically create a thumbnail rather than forcing a visitor to upload a thumbnail, it will be frustrating and annoying to the user and result in them not having good things to say about the website. I prefer to store images on the filesystem for larger applications, it is more efficient than saving them in the database. For small websites where ease of use and very very few images will be stored (< 30) and it is more important to be able to easily setup the site I have been known to store images in the database. I always set a max full photo size and resize the photo to the max size if it is bigger than that (that way I'm not storing 8 megapixel pictures in the database when I just want 500 pixels wide). Generate the thumbnail when the file is uploaded, not when it is viewed as this is inefficient and will slow your page loads down quite a bit. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Andy B [mailto:aborka1@wmis.net] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 7:06 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] thumbnails and captions?[Scanned] well as i just found out after the current year is over i.e. 2004 then all the images for that year get sorted out and put elsewhere so i dont know if a db would work... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Egan" <MEgan@3tc.org.uk> To: "Andy B" <aborka1@wmis.net>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 8:30 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] thumbnails and captions?[Scanned] Andy, I had a go at something like this for a nonleague football website ( www.marinefc.com/gallery/index.php ). Contributors to the site can upload their own images but in doing so they are prompted to upload both a small thumbnail as well as the full size image. This creates a record in a database containing an ID number for the image as well as additional information such as a caption, alternative text and who contributed the image. When visitors to the site look at the gallery of images they are presented with a listing of relevant images with the thumbnails and they can click on these to be shown the full image. There's a further example of this at another nonleague football site at www.kipax.com. I suspect there are ready made applications to do this but I wanted to have a go at creating my own. HTH, Michael Egan -----Original Message----- From: Andy B [mailto:aborka1@wmis.net] Sent: 26 April 2004 11:59 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] thumbnails and captions?[Scanned] hi... how would somebody create a thumbnail that has a caption under it and then when clicked on shows a larger size of the same graphic but still shows the caption under it?? havent quite figured that one out yet... thumbnail specs: total size with graphic, whitespace border on all 4 sides and caption at the bottom cant exceed 150px wide and 160.332px tall. thumbnail graphic must be clickable to make image larger (includes caption). enlarged image specs: height: 385px, width: 385px (no more than that to prevent pixelations). the enlarged graphic must be in its own window and include the caption that was on the original page. the enlarged image must have a link somewhere to allow the window to be closed and returns the viewer to the original page that image was on. page specs: 800 wide and 600 tall 20 images a page no less (40 a page if possible but not required). clients preferred graphic/image format: jpg anyways does anybody know how to go about this sort of thing?? or is it sort of unpractical to have thumbnails that small and have captions under them?? (sorry for my stupidness on images but when you cant see them it hurts)... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php