Posted by eholz1 on 12/12/06 23:48

Hello there,
I will check it out, thanks for the info.

eholz1


Areric wrote:
> eholz1,
>
> The thumbnailing you mention can easily be done using calls to gdlib
> functions. I do pretty much exactly what your talking about right now
> on a couple sites. When a user uploads an image i thumbnail it and save
> the thumbnail and main image to the db setting the parent id of the
> thumbnail to the main images id.
>
> Google something like "php thumbnail gdlib" and youll prolly come up
> with a dozen tutorials or examples.
>
>
> eholz1 wrote:
> > Hello PHP group,
> >
> > I looks like this is a good forum to ask my question. I am using both
> > PHP and MySQL.
> > I would like/am designing a photo database for the web - not heavy duty
> > - not complex, like menalto Gallery, etc. My idea is to use PHP and
> > MySQL. I would like to store the images in the MySQL database, and
> > display them using PHP. I would like to have a table with thumbnail
> > images, that when "clicked" will link to a veiw page that will display
> > a larger version of the thumbnail.
> >
> > My guess is that the thumb nail will be around 200px wide and 250px
> > high (or maybe less , in the 100px area). I figure I will have the
> > larger image at around 800x600 pixels, at 72dpi.
> >
> > I have some basic code that puts the image(s) in my database, and can
> > call the image using a view image.php page.
> >
> > I do not plan to fully automate this procedure. Perhaps i will
> > automate the thumbnail creation (netpbm, etc).
> >
> > Any suggestons the newsgroup might have on this basic design, etc will
> > be quite helpful.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > eholz1

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