PHP/Coldfusion image resize - php

Is it possible to add php image resize code to my coldfusion page? Images look significantly sharper when resized by php instead of coldfusion(even when I use the coldfusion's imageResize "highestquality" option).
<cfftp action="PUTFILE"
server="#ATTRIBUTES.FtpServer#"
username="#ATTRIBUTES.FtpUsername#"
password="#ATTRIBUTES.FtpPassword#"
stoponerror="No"
localfile="#ATTRIBUTES.LOCALIMAGEFILE#"
remotefile="#Filename_Temp#"
transfermode="BINARY"
connection="DOCMGR"
retrycount="1"
timeout="60"
passive="Yes">
<!-- Add php resize image code here -->

If you can run PHP and ColdFusion on the same server, upload using CF and store the file in a common location.
Cfhttp GET a separate PHP page which resizes the image to your specifications.
Then the caller CF page would do what it needs to with the image.
If you cant get PHP and CF on the same server, you could always cfhttp POST the image to the other server. Make sure you use a multi-part form post, otherwise you'll lose data on images >~ 1mb.
If you're ftping the file from CF to another server, you could http post the image to PHP which could resize then ftp the new image for you without having to send it back to CF first.
The other option is calling imagemagick directly using the command line, ie. cfexecute.
You'll get better performance calling imagemagick directly, rather than having php pass on the request. Unless of course, you want to use php to programatically alter the images. You should be able to achieve the same results with well crafted command line calls though.

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Is it possible to translate an image into raw text and then reverse it?

I have a picture. For whatever reason, I need that picture to be sent to an environment that can only receive text and not images. Images and other files must be sent through their filter and I want to get around this. I calculated that there would be 480,000 independent hex values being manipulated but this is really the only option I have. Also, is it possible to compress and uncompress it for less pixels being sent? I will need to send the picture from a PHP web server [lets say, mysite.com/image.php] and receive it in Lua, and my only connection to the server is over a web request. No ftp, no even loading image files. Just setting 480,000 variables to the different id's
Oh, one more thing: it needs to not crash my server when I run it. ;)
Convert your image to base64 (Eg: Can pass to the variable).
Eg: I converted PNG image
Base 64 image will look like this.
"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAcAAAAHCAYAAADEUlfTAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE9JREFUeNpiYMADGLEJKssrCACp+Uw4JPYD8QdGHBIP7j58EMgCFDAAcvqBOBGI64FYAMpmYIFqAilYD6Udgbo+IBvXAMT/gXg9sjUAAQYAG6IS47QjgzEAAAAASUVORK5CYII="
You can use it in image source to display.
Hope this helps!

Modifying Image using PHP and sending it to browser

I would appreciate your thoughts on this method.
I have a page that uploads a pic given by user and displays it after saving it in a database now that's very simple so, I wanted users to be able to modify these images as they wish, hence I decided to add filters to these images using php. Now before these images are uploaded to the database I want the user to see a preview of what the image looked like after adding the filter.
The solution I came up was to send the image to php file using a form and AJAX using POST, do all necessary checks if file was safe. create a new image and add filter and then convert it to base 64 and send it back to browser and display it using a DATA URL
something like:
<img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4/8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="Red dot">
Is this a good idea or there is something I should worry about?
Base-64 encoding adds about 33% overhead. For this reason, it is usually preferable to serve the image in binary form.
You can do this with a PHP script easily.
header('Content-Type: image/png');
echo $yourImageData;
Then in your HTML:
<img src="yourPHPScript.php?id=12345" />
hello we have a library for that actually, we make use of GD library to be able to achieve the correct image output that we would like to have, you can check more about our image library here.. by the way, our library does not only contain image library.. it has a bunch of useful libraries that you can actually use on your projects and we opensource it
http://eden.openovate.com/documentation/core/images

Uploading image (as data:image/png:base64) to webserver

I have an image on a web page constructed like so:
<img src="data:image/png;base64;...." />
The contents of the image come from the user pasting into the browser. My question is how do I then upload the image to the webserver (PHP if that matters).
1) Take the src attribute with javascript (or the data submitted by user)
2) Submit it to the server 'as is' or cut and submit everything after base64; (AJAX or POST, method GET is probably not very suitable here for large images)
3) Decode base64 on server side (everything after base64; if not cutted), save the result as binary - it is an image.
That's it.
ps: just a reminder - by careful with possible code injection. Check the submitted data or somebody will upload encoded php script. Disable php engine in the folder with uploads and verify that the final result is an actual image (with the help of GD library, for example). Even if the script can not run on your server it could be used for malicious requests to other servers with php scripts.
Just post the base 64 encoded text to your server.
You could save it as...
file_put_contents($image, base64_decode($str));

Resize image using PHP from an external image URL

I'm creating a web app that allows users to specify an image url to display an image along with their submission.
To avoid some potentially large images and odd sizes, i'd like to use PHP to limit/resize the image before it gets output to the browser (I know i could use max-width in CSS but this is unnecessary downloading)
Is this possible?
PHP has a library named GD. It's fairly easy to check the size of an image with the getimagesize() function.
You can find the complete code for it with 2 module/extensions: http://www.fliquidstudios.com/2009/05/07/resizing-images-in-php-with-gd-and-imagick/
a comparison of them can be found here: http://dreamfall.blogspot.com/2008/02/php-benchmarks-gd-vs-imagemagick.html which may be of use if you want optimize features.

How to resize linked images dynamically in PHP?

On my site I have given an option to user to choose thier profile image
Type link of an image
Image is a url link, and first I want it to resize to 400x300 (image's original size doesn't matter), and then display it on my web page.
Something like below:
<img src="http://mywebsite.com/resize.php?image=http://someotherurl.com/upload/image2.jpg&width=400&height=300" />
anyone knows this kind of script, please tell me how to solve this issue.
Thanks
A recent post:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1302464/php-image-resize-my-upload-script
has some code and comments that may give you some pointers. Otherwise may I suggest
http://www.white-hat-web-design.co.uk/articles/php-image-resizing.php.
Good luck!
If you have the GD extenstion, you can use imagecopyresampled (the documentation also features some examples). However, if the image to be resized is large and there is a low memory limit on your server, you may run out of memory.
I don't have ready to use source code, but it should look like:
Load image pointed by image parameter into object of ImageMagick (or other graphics library).
Resize it.
Send content to output stream.
Optionally you could:
Check if loaded file is image (plus other validation checks).
Save resized image on disk and serve it from disk next time (if you do it often).
Check docs of you favorite graphics library used in PHP for details.
Good luck!
Use the Class called - class.upload.php.
Find it at: PHP Classes
We use it at all times in many of our work.
The name is deceptive but actually it is an uploader as well as image processor. It has a very big list of functionality for resizing images, adding text to images, converting formats, etc. etc.
There is sample code which shows how to read an Image from server, modify it and finally send it directly to browser without having to create a temp file on server.
HTH

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