We all have been in situation where we allow users to upload images for content items or profile pictures. They’ll just upload huge images without considering bandwidth and disk space. Soon you have hundreds images above 2MB in size cluttering your precious harddisk space and taking up all of the bandwidth with just a few pageviews.
So how do you conquer this problem? Well, resize the images automatically. Keeping their ratio and quality but reducing their size significantly.
Here is some script that is made for resizing pictures with php help:
| <?php |
| if isset($_POST[‘Submit’])) |
| { |
| $size = 150; // the thumbnail height |
| $filedir = ‘pics/’; // the directory for the original image |
| $thumbdir = ‘pics/’; // the directory for the thumbnail image |
| $prefix = ‘small_’; // the prefix to be added to the original name |
| $maxfile = ‘2000000’; |
| $mode = ‘0666’; |
| $userfile_name = $_FILES[‘image’][‘name’]; |
| $userfile_tmp = $_FILES[‘image’][‘tmp_name’]; |
| $userfile_size = $_FILES[‘image’][‘size’]; |
| $userfile_type = $_FILES[‘image’][‘type’]; |
| if (isset($_FILES[‘image’][‘name’])) |
| { |
| $prod_img = $filedir.$userfile_name; |
| $prod_img_thumb = $thumbdir.$prefix.$userfile_name; |
| move_uploaded_file($userfile_tmp, $prod_img); |
| chmod ($prod_img, octdec($mode)); |
| $sizes = getimagesize($prod_img); |
| $aspect_ratio = $sizes[1]/$sizes[0]; |
| if ($sizes[1] <= $size) |
| { |
| $new_width = $sizes[0]; |
| $new_height = $sizes[1]; |
| }else{ |
| $new_height = $size; |
| $new_width = abs($new_height/$aspect_ratio); |
| } |
| $destimg=ImageCreateTrueColor($new_width,$new_height) |
| or die(‘Problem In Creating image’); |
| $srcimg=ImageCreateFromJPEG($prod_img) |
| or die(‘Problem In opening Source Image’); |
| if(function_exists(‘imagecopyresampled’)) |
| { |
| imagecopyresampled($destimg,$srcimg,0,0,0,0,$new_width,$new_height,ImageSX($srcimg),ImageSY($srcimg)) |
| or die(‘Problem In resizing’); |
| }else{ |
| Imagecopyresized($destimg,$srcimg,0,0,0,0,$new_width,$new_height,ImageSX($srcimg),ImageSY($srcimg)) |
| or die(‘Problem In resizing’); |
| } |
| ImageJPEG($destimg,$prod_img_thumb,90) |
| or die(‘Problem In saving’); |
| imagedestroy($destimg); |
| } |
| echo ‘ |
| <a href=”‘.$prod_img.‘”> |
| <img src=”‘.$prod_img_thumb.‘” width=”‘.$new_width.‘” heigt=”‘.$new_height.‘”> |
| </a>’; |
| }else{ |
| echo ‘ |
| <form method=”POST” action=”‘.$_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’].‘” enctype=”multipart/form-data”> |
| <input type=”file” name=”image”><p> |
| <input type=”Submit” name=”Submit” value=”Submit”> |
| </form>’; |
| } |
| ?> |
If you are a begginer as I am, you will find this helpfull. I also made a ZIP archive that contains the  files you need in working with this script. Just download, unzip, upload to your server and play 😀
Download from here pictures.zip
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