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I’m happy to announce the beta version of php image host v1.4 is now available.
This is a major rewrite of the existing code base and the new feature-set is limited to support for uploading images in a zip archive and (optional) use of imagemagick for image manipulation, however the new support for themes, language files [...]

For my second example of using my image thumbnailer I’ve thrown together a little script which accepts a zip archive upload containing images and generates and returns to the browser a new zip archive containing a thumbnail for each image in the original.

This is a simple script to demonstrate using my image resizing function
. It scans the directory you place it in for any images, generates a thumbnail for each image, then outputs html to display the thumbnails as links to each image.
It requires php 5.1+ as it uses the Directory Iterator to get the files in [...]

One of the great things about php is its built in support for the gd image library which makes creating thumbnails from images quite trivial, although you still need to calculate the correct dimensions if you want your thumbs to be resized proportionally.
Here’s a function that takes a gd image, a maximum width and [...]