Assassin — Thu, 19 May 2005 19:01:33 +0000

Well, here's what I am capable of doing:

I can load the image into a file handle and I can echo the image, but then if I put any html or text in the same file, the image becomes a lot of gibberish like when you try to open an exe file in a text editor. I'm now trying to set it up so that it will load and edit the image and then save it as a thumbnail. This would happen every time that the administrater uploaded a new image. Obviously, I've got my work cut out for me.

Greg K — Thu, 19 May 2005 17:16:42 +0000

What is safe mode for PHP, what does it acheive? (I've heard of it, but not read what it is for).

Short of using GD, you would need to upload a thumbnail.

-Greg

PS. Wonder if there are any services that do this, pull the image from your server than sends one back out that is reaized. Being servers, on fast connection, for a dialup user, would still be faster.

Assassin — Wed, 18 May 2005 22:41:36 +0000

The idea is to make it so that the gallery can display in safe mode. Safe mode disables these quick fixes. Thanks for the effort but does anyone know how to do this without GD?

Greg K — Wed, 18 May 2005 22:26:50 +0000

See:

http://www.php.net/gd

and in particular the funtion you probably want:
http://www.php.net/imagecopyresampled

but first use this to determine if you have GD available:
http://www.php.net/gd_info

-Greg

Busy — Wed, 18 May 2005 21:40:09 +0000

How about PHP's GD or ImageMavick and create a smaller version of the orginal for display. Happens on the fly or can be saved when uploaded