Create Thumbnail on The Fly Using PHP and GD

Here’s a cool script I use to resize picture on the fly. I don’t wanna loose any space in my server, so instead of creating a real thumbnail file, I generate a thumbnail on the fly.

First, specify the HTTP header.
< ?php header("Content-type: image/jpeg");

Then, this is the formula to resize the image with aspect ratio. We will only need to specify new thumbnail’s width. And its height will be automatically set.
< ?php // get image size $file = $_GET[image]; if($size = GetImageSize($file)){ $w = $size[0]; $h = $size[1]; //set new size $nw = $_GET['width']; $nh = ($nw*$h)/$w; } else{ //set new size $nw = "0"; $nh = "0"; } ?>


Now let’s draw the image:
< ?php //draw image $src_img = imagecreatefromjpeg($file); $dst_img = imagecreatetruecolor($nw,$nh); imagecopyresampled($dst_img, $src_img, 0, 0, 0, 0, $nw, $nh, $w, $h); imagejpeg($dst_img,"",100); imagedestroy($src_img); imagedestroy($dst_img); ?>


Save above pieces code into a file, name it thumbnail.php, for example. Then, call it with common <IMG SRC=”thumbnail.php?image=img/picture.jpg&width=150″ />

Your image should be succesfully displayed. If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact me yeni.setiawan AT yahoo DOT com ^_*

 

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