I think he already has the best solution. Store two images. How many thumbnails are there on a page? At 1-2 seconds per image to resize how long will you make every visitor wait to see the thumbnails?
Disk space is cheap. If you have to buy another drive - no big deal. I don't know about you, but for me if a web page doesn't load in about 10-15 seconds I'm outa here! Rick ** Reply to note from Miguel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:36:54 -0500 (CDT) > > On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Ray Paseur 703.346.0600 wrote: > > I am storing several detailed images at about 400x400 pixels (inventory > > for an art gallery). I show a page with thumbnails of the images. When > > a site visitor clicks on a thumbnail, I open a separate window to > > display the detailed image. > > > > Presently I am storing two copies of each image - full size and thumb. > > > > My objective is to store only one copy of each image - full size. (The > > rationale behind this is a complicated story involving old gallery > > owners, digital cameras, rudimentary image editing skills, etc.) > > > > I want the server to read the full size image, but resize it down to the > > thumbnail size before sending it, thus saving transmission time. > > > > Are there any server-side applications that can handle this? > > You could use ImageMagick (particularly, the 'convert' program) to do this > but decent results are not fast (not that it'll take several seconds or > anything, but it does take a certain amount of time, and everything adds > up). > > If you want to do this on the fly, I'd suggest having it save the > thumbnails when they're generated so that the next time someone comes, it > doesn't have to go through the process again. > > miguel > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists http://www.developersdesk.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
