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g3mma111

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I am new to PHP and need help with a resizing script.

I realise that there are lots of other posts like this but i have been through them and cant apply them to my case.

I have an image rating website and on the homepage it selects a picture at random to display. Problem is that the pic is often too wide and messes up the page. I need to make it so that the image is resized in proportion if the width is over 500.

Here is the bit i code that i think it goes into:

 

    <td height="19" td width="400"colspan="4" align="center" ><? print $pic ?>

</td>

 

Any help would be appreciated!

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There are several ways to do this.

 

1. Make a "gateway" image script in PHP. Reference it like you would an image (IE: <img src="gateway.php">. Use GD functions to randomly grab an image, and resize it on the fly. CPU usage on your server will be a bit high, because it's doing an image resize on every page load. Of course, there are cacheing methods/functions.

 

2. If all of your pictures are the same aspect ratio (IE: 4:3), then you can force the user's browser to downsize them.

<img src="<?php echo $pic; ?>" width="400" height="300">

If they aren't all the same aspect ratio, just use GD functions to get the image size, and calc it from there.

http://us2.php.net/gd

 

3. The easiest way is just to make thumbnails of all your images. There are tons of programs out there that will do batches of thumbnails. You can even write a PHP script to do it.

 

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