I am working on a site at the moment, that requires the admins of the site to be able to upload pretty much any size of image, I then need to find a way to get the image down to the size required for the front end of the end the site, all this needs to be done without know what size of image the user is uploading, but the image always needs to scale to 209x293 without looking awful.
Is this even possible?
You should argue with your client, to forget that rule(accept ANY image), and accept rather, only images in that proportion, or better, you can use a tool to crop the image, forcing the user to crop an image in your needed resolution.
Jcrop is a library in Jquery which can help you a lot if you want to create that cropping feature.
Don't know your precise requirements, but since you tagged it with CodeIgniter, you can check out the Image Manipulation Class which has everything you need to do the job.
Not knowing the size of images before uploading is, you know, quite a common problem...Just be careful of the MAX SIZE, which is set in your php.ini.
You might find useful also the page on file uploading right in php's manual.
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I have site I am working on and the images take forever to load, they are coming from the server, and are being uploaded using php upload, the images being uploaded ar 1212x2564 or similar
here is the html img attribute I am using
<img src="upload/<?php echo $array['image'] ?>" width="500" />
My site is http://www.willruppelglass.com/
why is it taking forever for my images to load?
The images are enormous, and are being downloaded at their original resolution. Giving the image a specific width either as an HTML parameter or using CSS will only stretch/shrink the original image, it will not change the resolution or file size for you.
To speed up the loading, you should create thumbnail versions of your images, whose actual resolution is 500px.
If you let us know what OS you're using, we can recommend tools for creating the thumbnails.
Those images are huge, they need to be drastically reduced in size if you expect them to load in a reasonable amount of time.
You can use WebResizer to help you out with this for free or use your favorite graphics editing program.
if you a new to these thing sometimes it is worth using something like wordpress as this contains automatic image resizing. You can define the size of images you want to use in certain areas and wp will create an image of the correct site even if you upload the original full size image. Obviously this require some configuration but it might easier than trying to build an image resizer from scratch using php.
You need to use server-side image processing to scale them down to an acceptable size for the web.
http://www.zeronese.net/knowledge-base/articles/article-1060.html
Your images are way too big. I mean, they aren't just a little big, they are way too big. I never recommend anything bigger than 1600px max.
I've recently started trying to increase my sites performance. One of the biggest obstacles I have are the number of thumbnails being displayed.
I currently use the full size image and scale it down by defining a height/width value in the img tag. This doesn't seem very efficient so my question is whats the recommended way to display thumbnails? Should I maintain a second table in the DB for thumbnails or is there a better solution?
Processing images takes its (cpu) toll, you should better avoid it where possible.
My advice:
Create the thumbnails while uploading the images into separate image files, this way you can determine when to create/resize them - and not during runtime.
If you want the links to the thumbnails in a separate database field or derive it from the original name, is entirely up to you - both ways work.
This makes additional performance boosters easier to implement too (p.e. caching).
I've implemented a similar process in a php based project, its a good way to scale out. In my case, I am creating the thumbnails nightly via cron, because system load is very low in that time.
If using an uploader to get the images on your website, have PHP resize the original image and upload both the original and a smaller thumb with some kind of prefix in the name.
This way you can easily get the images from your database and just use "filename.jpg" for your normal images and "thumb_filename.jpg" for your thumb.
Same can be done without an uploader of course but you'd have to manually create/upload the thumbnails.
For example create seperate folder in images call it thumnails (images/thumbnails) add there put files prefixed with file size for ex: "original_file_name_200X200.jpg", store on database "original_file_name" and extension "jpg" to seperate fields (name, ext) then when you need to display it select name add size prefix and add extension you get /images/thumbnails/file_200X200.jpg this way you can add later more sizes leaving original untouched.
You are looking for something like what can be found here: http://dtbaker.com.au/random-bits/php-simple-image-resize-thumbnail-generator.html (this turns all images into jpegs)
Like #martincarlin87 stated - Just need to add a check to see if it exists in the thumbnail directory and either send the information or create and send it through. This can be turned into a function as well.
I use phpTumb to create thumbnails on the fly.
You could also use it while uploading a picture to change its dimesions.
It has many other features. Check it out.
you could use a program like imagemagick to make proper thumbnails.
If its your personal site you could batch resize (theres a powertool for xp that does this) and then upload to a 200 directory and change your code. Obviously this relies on you uploading the images.
imagemagick will need to be installed on the server but will resize and allow you to play with the size of the images
I've read many articles and discussions in forums and I still cann't figure out the difference between resizing a large image with php(not with html) and creating thumbnails. Except for the fact that the most people suggest phpthumb and imageMagick for thumbnails I don't understand why I should or not prefer to use these and not php functions like imagecreatefromgif(png,jpeg) and imagecopyresampled which can do this job(according to what I read.). What I'm trying to do is to create many galleries, so I want the images the user uploads to be resized in a smaller size if they are too large. Moreover, I need these images to be resized in smaller pictures that will be shown to gallery and when the user clicks on them they get their real size. So far, the user can upload an image that will be saved in a folder. I resize my images for galleries with html(which I know it's wrong) and I use fancybox for clicking and enlarging part with which I am satisfied. Please help understand the difference and give me the your advice what is the best thing to do. Thanks
Take this scenario.
I'm a highly equiped professional photographer and your photo application will store every image I take. I shoot in RAW so my images are massive. I also want to upload the original hi res JPEGs.
Now if you do not resize these images to thumbnails (by whatever mechanism you choose), if I try and view a particular album, I might have to load a 10x 20Mb images, only to have them resized down to 80x60pixels (and become totally crackling/noisy and extremely pixelated).
So what can you do?
Resize the images on your server, using something like ImageMagick as you suggest to generate multiple versions of this image.
This way you can deliver optimzed qualities for every occassion.
You should always intend to display an image in it's native resolution/dimension to avoid rastering or resizing noise.
And also, you want to save the different versions of the images.
imagecreatefromgif() will use the GD library by default.
Some reasons why one might prefer ImageMagick are detailed here and here.
That said, if you're happy with what you've got already and if there's no realistic chance of running into any GD dealbreakers later on, you certainly may reasonably decide to stay with what you have.
I am writing an PHP script to upload image files to the server and I have a few questions?
Is there a way to decrease the size of images in terms of kilobytes?
When I am using those files what is the best practice to embed those images into page? I mean do I always have to download the whole page?
Lastly, When resizing the pages(like 250X250 pixels) what is the pratice in order not to face the resolution problems?
I hope my questions are not too general. Thanks in advance!
Take a look at this http://www.webmotionuk.co.uk/php-jquery-image-upload-and-crop/ - There are many other free tools out there to convert images after the upload. The resolution shouldn't be an issue that is usually a problem when you give a size to an image object in html that is huge and not proportioned.
Here is another php resizer I have used this code before to do what you are requesting.
Is there a way to decrease the size of
images in terms of kilobytes?
You'll need to create a new image, based on the one you received.
You should first take a look at the PHP GD functions.
For instance: http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatefromjpeg.php
When I am using those files what is
the best practice to embed those
images into page? I mean do I always
have to download the whole page?
What do you mean by embedding?
If you are talking about decreasing the size of the image before is uploaded, you can't with PHP, unless you use something like HTML5/Flash to pre-process the file before being sent.
What you want to do, after a user uploads that image, verify that the file is a real image, then using some library (if you use a framework, it probably has a way to resize images) resize the image to whatever max width or max height or max width and height you are wanting.
This will decrease the size of an image.
For the 2nd question, if I understand it, you are talking about what about when a user uploads a 500x500 and you want it to be 400x250, then you must scale and crop, this way the image is never stretched but a few pixels from the top or the bottom will probably be removed.
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