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snowboardalliance
I want to know the best way to do this. I have a member system. I want them to have avatars. I want the avatars to be restricted to x by y pixels, but they can be smaller. I think it would be easier to allow the avatars to be off-site and just hotlinked, but I don't know how to check the size. Should I just have it so users upload thier avatar and I scale it if necessary and store it on the server? Also, can I see some example code?

Thanks.
MrBaseball34
On this page:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.getimagesize.php

See the user comments by egingell at sisna dot com:
Code:

 * mixed image_info( file $file [, string $out] )
 *
 * Returns information about $file.
snowboardalliance
OK, how can I take an image (let's say remotely hosted) and resize it AND save it in a folder on my site? I think that will work for me. I'm just not too sure on all the opening an image and saving it part. Thanks
Philip
u cannot do remotely,
u need to copy the image first to your site and checked it.

use this function for copy,

Code:
copy("http://www.google.com/image.jpg",tempnam("/temporaly folder", "FOO_PREFIX");)


and recheck your image with getimagesize.
snowboardalliance
Philip wrote:
u cannot do remotely,
u need to copy the image first to your site and checked it.

use this function for copy,

Code:
copy("http://www.google.com/image.jpg",tempnam("/temporaly folder", "FOO_PREFIX");)


and recheck your image with getimagesize.


Wow that tempnam() function should help. One more thing, I'm not familiar with GD and images, so once I get the image size and find it too big, I'll have the new size in variables. How do I save the image scaled down?
Philip
using imagecopyresampled function.
i hope this can help u, and this only work for gif picture, u need to change the mime header type to other and function also, for working with other picture.

ex :
Code:
$imagefile="picture.gif";
   header('Content-type: image/gif');
   list($width_orig, $height_orig) = getimagesize($imagefile);
   $width = 300;
   $height = 300;
   $image_p = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
   $image = imagecreatefromgif($filename);
   imagecopyresampled($image_p, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width_orig, $height_orig);
   imagegif($image_p, null, 100);            
snowboardalliance
Philip wrote:
using imagecopyresampled function.
i hope this can help u, and this only work for gif picture, u need to change the mime header type to other and function also, for working with other picture.

ex :
Code:
$imagefile="picture.gif";
   header('Content-type: image/gif');
   list($width_orig, $height_orig) = getimagesize($imagefile);
   $width = 300;
   $height = 300;
   $image_p = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
   $image = imagecreatefromgif($filename);
   imagecopyresampled($image_p, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width_orig, $height_orig);
   imagegif($image_p, null, 100);            


Thanks, and using .png or .jpg I just need to change that in the header and the "imagegif()" part? Everything else is the same?

One last thing, how do I use this script like after the avatar has been entered? I just don't get it because of the header() part, which means the page is served as an image. I want exactly what you said, but have the image saved in a folder as like "avatar34242.gif". Thanks for your help so far.
Philip
to png
Code:
$imagefile="picture.png";
   header('Content-type: image/png');
   list($width_orig, $height_orig) = getimagesize($imagefile);
   $width = 300;
   $height = 300;
   $image_p = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
   $image = imagecreatefrompng($filename);
   imagecopyresampled($image_p, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width_orig, $height_orig);
   imagepng($image_p, null, 100);     


u need to create specific php file for read as a image
ex :
image.php that contain
Code:
$imagefile="picture.png";
   $imagefile=$_GET["imagefile"];
   header('Content-type: image/png');
   list($width_orig, $height_orig) = getimagesize($imagefile);
   $width = 300;
   $height = 300;
   $image_p = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
   $image = imagecreatefrompng($filename);
   imagecopyresampled($image_p, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width_orig, $height_orig);
   imagepng($image_p, null, 100);     


and on other php or html file u can call it by
Other.php
Code:
Below this is a image php <br><img src="image.php?imagefile=www.google.com/picture.png">
snowboardalliance
Philip wrote:
to png
Code:
$imagefile="picture.png";
   header('Content-type: image/png');
   list($width_orig, $height_orig) = getimagesize($imagefile);
   $width = 300;
   $height = 300;
   $image_p = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
   $image = imagecreatefrompng($filename);
   imagecopyresampled($image_p, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width_orig, $height_orig);
   imagepng($image_p, null, 100);     


u need to create specific php file for read as a image
ex :
image.php that contain
Code:
$imagefile="picture.png";
   $imagefile=$_GET["imagefile"];
   header('Content-type: image/png');
   list($width_orig, $height_orig) = getimagesize($imagefile);
   $width = 300;
   $height = 300;
   $image_p = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
   $image = imagecreatefrompng($filename);
   imagecopyresampled($image_p, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width_orig, $height_orig);
   imagepng($image_p, null, 100);     


and on other php or html file u can call it by
Other.php
Code:
Below this is a image php <br><img src="image.php?imagefile=www.google.com/picture.png">


I was thinking I might just have to do the <img> thing, but is there anyway to save it so I don't have to resize it everytime it is viewed? Like save image.php?imagefile=www.google.com/picture.png as image5302093.png somewhere.
Philip
your surely a newbie at php ?

then just use copy function
ex:

Code:
copy("image.php?imagefile=www.google.com/picture.png","test.png");


this will copy the image to test.png.
snowboardalliance
Philip wrote:
your surely a newbie at php ?

then just use copy function
ex:

Code:
copy("image.php?imagefile=www.google.com/picture.png","test.png");


this will copy the image to test.png.


Newbie at images/files in php actually. Thanks for all your help.
Philip
nah, it;s ok Smile
you are welcome #i think i learned that code from some else here too also hehe.. Smile #
Maryndor
Hehe... I'll remember that forum with the questions about MySQL and Image Stuff. Just people can't think about anything other ... Razz
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