Posted by Curt Zirzow on 10/04/14 11:05

* Thus wrote Jason Morehouse:
> John Holmes wrote:
> >What do you guys recommend for making thumbnails from uploaded images? I
> >know of the GD extension, Imagemagik and netpbm. Any other
> >recommendations or opinions on which of the above work best with PHP?
> >Thanks.
> >
>
> Imagemagik is your best bet IMHO. It's the most configurable and gives
> the best results. It's too bad it can't be built directly into php, but
> I think there is a pear module for it. Myself, I just use the command
> line --- but be sure and take all the necessarily precautions when
> making system calls!

Actually imagemagick can be built directly into php:
http://pecl.php.net/imagick

It lacks a lot of documentation and the installation file is
outdated, but has lots of code examples.


Curt
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Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

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