Resize image in PHP

Question

I'm wanting to write some PHP code which automatically resizes any image uploaded via a form to 147x147px, but I have no idea how to go about it (I'm a relative PHP novice).

So far, I've got images uploading successfully, filetypes being recognised and names cleaned up, but I'd like to add the resize functionality into the code. For example, I've got a test image which is 2.3MB, and 1331x1331 in dimension, and I'd like the code to size it down, which I'm guessing will dramatically compress the filesize of the image, too.

So far, I've got the following:

if ($_FILES) {
                //Put file properties into variables
                $file_name = $_FILES['profile-image']['name'];
                $file_size = $_FILES['profile-image']['size'];
                $file_tmp_name = $_FILES['profile-image']['tmp_name'];

                //Determine filetype
                switch ($_FILES['profile-image']['type']) {
                    case 'image/jpeg': $ext = "jpg"; break;
                    case 'image/png': $ext = "png"; break;
                    default: $ext = ''; break;
                }

                if ($ext) {
                    //Check filesize
                    if ($file_size < 500000) {
                        //Process file - clean up filename and move to safe location
                        $n = "$file_name";
                        $n = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9.]", "", $n);
                        $n = strtolower($n);
                        $n = "avatars/$n";
                        move_uploaded_file($file_tmp_name, $n);
                    } else {
                        $bad_message = "Please ensure your chosen file is less than 5MB.";
                    }
                } else {
                    $bad_message = "Please ensure your image is of filetype .jpg or.png.";
                }
            }
$query = "INSERT INTO users (image) VALUES ('$n')";
mysql_query($query) or die("Insert failed. " . mysql_error() . "<br />" . $query);

Answer 1

You need to use either PHP's ImageMagick or GD functions to work with images.

With GD, for example, it's as simple as...

function resize_image($file, $w, $h, $crop=FALSE) {
    list($width, $height) = getimagesize($file);
    $r = $width / $height;
    if ($crop) {
        if ($width > $height) {
            $width = ceil($width-($width*abs($r-$w/$h)));
        } else {
            $height = ceil($height-($height*abs($r-$w/$h)));
        }
        $newwidth = $w;
        $newheight = $h;
    } else {
        if ($w/$h > $r) {
            $newwidth = $h*$r;
            $newheight = $h;
        } else {
            $newheight = $w/$r;
            $newwidth = $w;
        }
    }
    $src = imagecreatefromjpeg($file);
    $dst = imagecreatetruecolor($newwidth, $newheight);
    imagecopyresampled($dst, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $newwidth, $newheight, $width, $height);

    return $dst;
}

And you could call this function, like so...

$img = resize_image(‘/path/to/some/image.jpg’, 200, 200);

From personal experience, GD's image resampling does dramatically reduce file size too, especially when resampling raw digital camera images.