Resize Images on the fly - PHP Snipplr Social Repository

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at September 23, 2009 15:58 by paulgrenwood

Initial Code

/**********************
*@filename - path to the image
*@tmpname - temporary path to thumbnail
*@xmax - max width
*@ymax - max height
*/
function resize_image($filename, $tmpname, $xmax, $ymax)
{
	$ext = explode(".", $filename);
	$ext = $ext[count($ext)-1];

	if($ext == "jpg" || $ext == "jpeg")
		$im = imagecreatefromjpeg($tmpname);
	elseif($ext == "png")
		$im = imagecreatefrompng($tmpname);
	elseif($ext == "gif")
		$im = imagecreatefromgif($tmpname);

	$x = imagesx($im);
	$y = imagesy($im);

	if($x <= $xmax && $y <= $ymax)
		return $im;

	if($x >= $y) {
		$newx = $xmax;
		$newy = $newx * $y / $x;
	}
	else {
		$newy = $ymax;
		$newx = $x / $y * $newy;
	}

	$im2 = imagecreatetruecolor($newx, $newy);
	imagecopyresized($im2, $im, 0, 0, 0, 0, floor($newx), floor($newy), $x, $y);
	return $im2;
}

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Initial Description

Creating thumbnails of the images is required many a times, this code will be useful to know about the logic of thumbnail generation.

Initial Title

Resize Images on the fly

Initial Tags

php, resize, image

Initial Language

PHP

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