Posted by Steven Saunderson on 09/20/06 09:36

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:01:47 +1000, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> > If you want to resample on the server it is easy with PHP provided the
> > GD image processing library is available on your server.
>
> Which is not a bad way to go I suppose, especially for the
> thumbnails, you just load up the good bigger images. OP's example
> is a bit frightening though! 1600 x 1200 indeed...

I'd expect the 1600 x 1200 image file to be 100 times the size of a 160
x 120 image. This is horribly inefficient and unfortunately quite
common. Being a responsible citizen I have complained to some people
about their sites. So far I have a perfect record of annoying everybody
and achieving nothing.

I'm not recommending resizing on the fly as it is a nasty load for the
server. But it should be easy to write a PHP script that will accept
the details and then resize/resample the image and produce a small
version.

--
Steven

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