Hi

I've got a simple PHP script to generate thumbnail images of the contents of a directory.  It all works, only problem is the original file is quite big, so the thumbnails are taking quite a while to load.

Is there a way to limit the size (bytes) of the thumbnail image?

Thanks

If they are JPEGs, try giving them a bit of gaussian blur.
This removes some of the high frequency components from the DCT and should mean the file size is a bit smaller.

Let us know how you get on..

B


They are jpegs, but what I wanted to do is not reduce the file size of the original picture, or have to create a smaller sized picture individually, I have quite a few pictures so this would take too long.

I was just hoping there was a way of generating a smaller thumnail version on the fly.

Thanks


So how are you generating the thumbnail? ImageMagick?

I believe that will let you process the image on the fly and encode to jpeg.


Just using the following script:
Code:

<?php $directory = "c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/misc/css/chris/Dad's Pics"; $dir= opendir($directory); while ( false != ($file= readdir($dir))) {      $split=explode( ".", $file); if ($split[1]=="jpg"){      if (($file !=".") and ($file !="..")) {            $file_list .= "<li><a href=\"Dad's Pics/$file\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"Dad's Pics/$file\" width=\"140\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\"> </a></li>";      } } } closedir($dir); ?>  <ul id="albumlist">      <?php echo ($file_list); ?>  </ul> </div>

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