Comments on: Laziest image resize in PHP

By: John

John — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:01:55 +0000

Wow, this is so simple! You just saved me an hour. Thanks!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:46:35 +0000

I am getting the below error

Fatal error: Call to undefined method PEAR_Error::load() in /home/knowtho2/public_html/new1/photos/upload_file.php on line 41

code : $i->load(’test.jpg’);

Am I missing any pear or Image libraries?

By: George P.

George P. — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:04:26 +0000

I was googl’ing and found the same Digg discussion you were talking about - and the first thing that came to my mind was ‘doesn’t PEAR do this?’… and then I stumbled on this post

By: joey

joey — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:33:48 +0000

Nice code lines I myself use exactley the same method! PEAR is great but if you like OO programming check out Zend Framework! (http://framework.zend.com/) It is a superb collection of classes and I risk that is better than PEAR.

And Jim: That’s cool to provide such service but when it comes to sensitive data you cannot really afford to outsource your image data processing. On the other hand resizing a picture (once at initial processing/adding to database etc) should not raise such a big CPU load. Taking that these libraryies are single threaded and a really lot of servers are multi-cored and users are resource limited if should not be a risk.
So I do not think it is a good idea to outsource image resize jobs. The optimal solution is still making your own cache of resized images and store image information in database.

By: www.redips.net | Resize images with PHP script

www.redips.net | Resize images with PHP script — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:39:45 +0000

Nice & short script … but
if you need simple PHP script to resize many images at once from command line, I have one. I also used ImageMagick tools, so PHP script will work without GD library. Hope this will help …

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:39:48 +0000

There is no need to host CPU-intensive thumbnailing scripts like this on your webserver anymore. Instead, you can use a specialized service for remote, on-demand image manipulation like SteadyOffload.

All you have to do is use a custom HTML attribute called “xmanip” with the img tag. This will deliver the thumbnail from one of the globally scattered cache servers:

So much easier than all the hassle with GD or ImageMagick! Moreover, this reduces the CPU load of your webserver and saves some bandwidth.

By: InstaHippo » Image Resize

InstaHippo » Image Resize — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:46:29 +0000

[...] In addition, the Image_Transform library offers diffferent ways (to skin the old cat) to resize an image - by given pixel value, only on the X axis, on Y, scalling in percentage and so on. And, of course, the library can do much more than resizing, as you can see in the API docs.4 [...]

By: a tvorog

a tvorog — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:56:24 +0000

Sorry for flood.
I fixed my problem.
I had to just to change all the path in icludes.

By: a tvorog

a tvorog — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:47:35 +0000

Hi.
Sorry for the perheps dumb question, but I’m really having troubles with using PEAR libraries since I’m not good at all at OOP.
So when trying to use Image_Transform it tells me “Image library not supported… aborting”.
Could you explain how to fix it?

I suppose that the problem is in the way the PEAR is installed at my web-site.
I don’t know if it is installed at my host, so at some foums I was suggested just to place it in a local folder at my web-site and just include it to my pages.
The PEAR extantions I ‘plug’ in the same way.
Do you think there’s any better solution?

By: Pol Clause

Pol Clause — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:31:44 +0000

I’m using very simply program picture resizer, and I have not any problem.