Hi Robert,

 

Thanks for the response. I do this as well on images resident on the Witango
server. In fact, I think I got the basics from you about 4 to 5 years ago.
Works great.

 

What I don't know how to handle is off site images. 

 

When a seller enters the url to an image (resident on an offsite image
server), I would like to be able to download it to my server and then resize
it using imagemagick. The resizing part I understand. The downloading using
an url, I don't.

 

Also, I only create a thumbnail for the first image, so subsequent offsite
images are referenced with a url when we display them for an auction item. I
want to limit the display for each image to 250 pixels as some of the off
site images may be larger than that. I can accomplish that with the width
attribute in the scr tag. The problem is when the width is smaller than 250
pixels. If I set the width attribute to 250, it will distort the image. 

 

So I would like to be able to somehow determine the width of the offsite
image referenced by an url on the fly and adjust the width attribute
accordingly. I don't know if this is possible.

 

Thanks for your comments.

 

Steve

 

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From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Offsite images for Witango Auction site (A bit
off topic)

 

It is possible using external actions and imagemagick. We did this kind of
stuff all the time for eventpix.

 

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Robert Garcia

President - BigHead Technology

VP Application Development - eventpix.com

13653 West Park Dr

Magalia, Ca 95954

ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040

[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  - [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> 

http://bighead.net/ <http://bighead.net/>  - http://eventpix.com/
<http://eventpix.com/> 

 

On Aug 31, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Fogelson, Steve wrote:





I have a customer with a Witango "Auction" site. They want the ability for
seller to reference images from other sites or image servers.

 

So we don't actually download the image to our Witango server. I need to be
able to do 2 things.

 

1)     Create a thumbnail of the offsite image. I would like the thumbnail
stored on our server if possible.

2)     Figure out the width and height of the offsite image on the fly. I
want to resize if necessary.

 

Is this possible? Please provide suggestions how I can do this.

 

Steve Fogelson

Internet Commerce Solutions

"In God We Trust"

 

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