Re: generating thumbnails

> nahhh, if you're doing a lot of images on a page, doing a system call for > each one would generate entirely too much overhead, imo. > > check out the built-in image manipulation functions in php. > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php > > there is a function called ImageCopyResized() which is probably what you would need to use. i > used to have a thumbnailer written in php but alas, it's been so long ago, that i forgot how i > wrote it. :) The problem with that function is that it is going to dither things down to 8-bit colour for you and the resulting thumbnail isn't going to look very good. Sometimes for thumbnails that is not an issue though. imagecopyresampled() does a very nice job of scaling images without losing quality, but you need GD2 to use it. -Rasmus