On 11/28/07, Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > In my solution, I use two scripts. One for showing the image true size
> > and another for generating a thumbnail -- I may be wrong, but I think
> > it's better to generate a thumbnail as needed on the fly than it is to
> > store both images (large and thumbnail) in the dB.
>
> Cache it on the filesystem even if it's for a short time (of course if
> the image is updated elsewhere the cache needs to be cleared as well..).
>
>
> <?php
>
> $file = '/path/to/cache/file.jpg';
> if (file_exists($file)) {
> if (filemtime($file) > strtotime('-30 minutes')) {
> $fp = fopen($file, 'rb');
> fpassthru($fp);
> exit;
> }
>
> // the file is older than 30 minutes, kill it and start again.
> unlink($file);
> }
>
> // continue creating your thumbnail.
>
> $fp = fopen('/path/to/cache/' . $filename, 'wb');
> fputs($fp, $imagecontents);
> fclose($fp);
>
> // display image
>
> --
Thanks for all the suggestions, guys. I was really trying to understand,
through extending it, the code from the reference (
http://www.wellho.net/solutions/php-example-php-form-image-upload-store-in-mysql-database-retreive.html
).
David
