Resize Image
A web page is quite suitable for mobile browsing if the rich media content is removed from it. Rich Media may include flash, streaming audio, photos etc. While images are viewable on mobile phone browser, loading and rendering of large images may lead to browser crashes, not to forget the large amount of data transfer cost associated with it. While pictures can be totally avoided from loading in the mobile phone browser, the web page may loose its appeal in the process and look similar to a 18th century notebook page. An image can many a times be worth a thousand words hence its not a good decision to avoid loading of pics. It however is a good decision to resize the image online and then have the browser load it, in this way the appeal is not lost neither does the mobile site page viewer feel the heat of large amount of data transfer. Its a winsome situation, but to force this condition or situation an extra server side scripting is necessary especially an on the fly image resizer.
PHP
Free Script
On the fly image resizer provided below is a php script which will work smooth on any php enabled server having GD Library installed. The script is simple to understand, easy to set up and free to use. There are no copyrights associated with it, so that means one can use it,edit it, abuse it any way they wish to.Click below and download the Free PHP online image resize script.
Free PHP online image resize script ( download as txt file)
Follow the given steps to use the above linked free script:
1)Download the .txt file but save it as size.php
2) Upload it in your main (root) directory.
3) Use the following html code to publish any image file
Image Resize Code
4) Replace the red text in figure with your image url.
5) Replace the blue text in figure with the maximum image width attribute.
6) Replace the purple text in figure with the maximum image height attribute.
Publish the code with the necessary changed parameters and * presto * your images get resize magically ;o)
The available free PHP image resize script is very basic in nature, with GD library one can add watermark , tilt, process and do much more. This script is most beneficial for mobile sites but can be used for various other purposes such as image thumbnail generation and more. This will be discussed and explained in future free scripts and usage tutorials.