Re: image orientation/resizing images

> At 17:48 21/02/2001 -0500, Jaxon wrote: > >Is there any way to take an image from the filesystem, say a .jpg or .png, > >and display it in a different orientation? e.g. 20 degrees to the right? > > At 17:18 21/02/2001 -0500, Dale Frohman wrote: > >Does anyone know of a way to resize images as they are being uploaded? > >Would you write these images to a mysql database or straight to a file on > >the server? The pictures will be small < 100k > > > In both cases, the answer will have to be some kind of server side utility > that can dynamically feed up translated images. Chris' very nice "image from > database" snippet gives a guidline on how this might work - whether or not what > you want can be done in PHP, I don't know. Actually, Brian's suggestion won't really solve your problems nor really apply. (No offense intended) In both cases you want to physically manipulate the images. This will require, as Brian mentioned, a utility. You'll want to look into using either ImageMagik or GD. I've never used ImageMagik but I have used GD quite a bit. To enable the PHP GD functions, you'll need to compile PHP with GD support. The more recent versions of GD support mainly JPEG and PNG image formats. GIF is not supported because it is copyrighted. If you need GIF support, you might be able to find an older version. You'll need one that's about a year old. (I believe that's when they stop supporting it.) In regards to the second question, you wouldn't even have to store the image in a database if you just want to manipulate it. You can just manipulate in on the filesystem. Hope that answers your questions, Jason