auto picture resize

kwickcut · Post by **kwickcut** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:05 am

Hello all i am very new to this game and i am haveing a problem with my site. i have just opened a site wear you can upload listings and pictures. the problem is that is the picture is over the max amount i have set, it allows ya to upload the pic but you do not see it. once it is done all ya see is a box with a red x in it. is there a plug in that the users can download so that when they mke a post there picture will auto resize to the max amount allowed by the site if it is over the max amount. this is a php site i really need help i ahve been trying to find a fix for this for 3 weeks now and i am ready to do i dont know what lol if you need please take a look for yourself and please please tell me what i need to do to fix this thanks in advance mysite

kwick

Post by **HaraldHeim** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:00 pm

Better get a image editing tool (a free one is available at www.irfanview.com), open the image, resize it and save it again. That's how it is usually done.

kwickcut · Post by **kwickcut** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:46 am

thanks for the reply

but what i was looking for was an auto resizer.. so that when a person uploads the picture the size will be detected and if needed the picture will be resized to the size that is set on the server. thanks

kwick

Post by **HaraldHeim** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:58 am

To do that you need to run a program on the server that resizes the image. A free package that can do that on Linux servers is netpbm. If your server runs under Windows, you need another software.

kwickcut · Post by **kwickcut** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:05 pm

thanks i am running linux i will install that program and give it a go thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!

kwick

Post by **HaraldHeim** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:31 pm

I think you need to write a php script or other script to control netpbm.