Resize image using another website - php

Question

Having exhausted the possibility of solving the image resizing issue I posted in Problems rotating and resizing large images, due to having a shared server on which I can't alter the memory allowance or install additional image handling libraries, I wondered if there would be a way for me to use an external website to resize the image and pass it back to my PHP script?
Eg:
$mylargeimage = "http://www.mywebsite.com/uploads/largephoto.jpg";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.imageresizingsite.com/resizethis.php?src=" . $mylargeimage . "&scale=50");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true)
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
I don't know if this would work - nor have I found a website which actually resizes images - but is this approach a possibility and does anyone know of a website which would resize images using this kind of approach?

Answer 1

Try this if you want to resize the image yourself:
(i can't test the code right now, i haven't got a local server currently)
$image = $link_to_image;
$source_image = imagecreatefromfile($image);
$source_imagex = imagesx($source_image);
$source_imagey = imagesy($source_image);
$crop_measure = min($source_imagex, $source_imagey);
$to_crop_array = array('x' =>0 , 'y' => 0, 'width' => $crop_measure, 'height'=> $crop_measure);
$thumb_im = imagecrop($source_image, $to_crop_array);
imagejpeg($thumb_im, NULL, 80); //This may change, see the link below in this answer to see the right way to do that (it change because of extension)
}
?>
Link that maybe help you
Remember that if you need to resize images from php, you should have the gd driver installed on the server, to see if you have them, make a php_info() call in a empty page
IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT REMOTELY
THIS SHOULD HELP YOU