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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 [...]

I’ve just released a web application for providing an image conversion service via a website. The script supports resizing, watermarking and conversion between jpeg, gif and png images as well as uploading and downloading zip archives of the images. Its priced at $19.95 but visit the pre-sales forum for a discount.

I’ve opened a forum to support anyone using my scripts. I’ll try to check for posts as often as possible, so if you need help with php image host, sams’s whois or any other stuff on this site visit the forum :)

A new version of my image hosting script is now available to download. I wasn’t planning on adding any new features to the original script but V2 is taking longer than I expected :p and from comments I’ve received the original is still useful, so I’ve thrown a few new features into another release. PHP [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to my new php blog :0) Nothing much here yet except for some bits and pieces migrated over from my past. My php image hosting script is now available for free under an MIT open source licence, and for the domainers amongst you a very slightly updated version of my php domain name whois [...]