I've been using ImageCR3 to do some image resizing and in the past I've used imagemagick and alagad's image component. I've always done it where I've done file resizing at the time of upload. However, I'm facing a situation of having to display an unknown amount of directories of photos that are being uploaded into folders via FTP. Rather than forcing someone to go fire off a page that goes out and does all the resizing, I'm wondering if it would be feasible to resize the images as needed. I'm not sure what the overhead would be on something like that. I've seen some .NET developers doing it with something called image.ashx where they call their images like <img src="image.ashx?file=/myfiles/photo1.jpg&width=600&height=400"> and it appears to just do the resizing everytime someone hits that image. I was thinking of writing a CFM that did the same thing by resizing the photo and pass it back to the browser using <cfcontent> but I wasn't sure if the overhead is too much. This isn't a large site and there won't be a ton of people hitting it at once, but even 2 or 3 people on there pulling up a page of 20-30 thumbnails with each image being resized on the fly sounds a little scary to me. I'm just looking for some more knowledge and expertise on the subject. Thanks! John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer
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