mysql - PHP Image Resizing

Question

I've got a script that uploads files to the server as well as adds the filename to a database, but what I'd like to do it restrict the maximum dimensions of the image before uploading. So if I upload an image that is 1000 x 500 it will be restricted but still keep it's dimensions and will be changed to 200 x 100, but an image that is 300 x 300 will be restricted to 200 x 200

    <?php 

     //This is the directory where images will be saved 
     $target = "uploads/"; 
     $target = $target . basename( $_FILES['photo']['name']); 

     //This gets all the other information from the form 
     $name=$_POST['name']; 
     $pic=($_FILES['photo']['name']); 

     // Connects to your Database 
     mysql_connect("hostname", "username", "password") or die(mysql_error()) ; 
     mysql_select_db("database") or die(mysql_error()) ; 

     //Writes the information to the database 
     mysql_query("INSERT INTO `table` (name, photo) VALUES ('$name','$pic')") ; 

     //Writes the photo to the server 
     if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'], $target)) 
     { 

     //Tells you if its all ok 
     echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded"; 
     } 
     else { 

     //Gives and error if its not 
     echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file."; 
     } 
     ?> 

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

To my knowledge, you can’t resize the image before uploading it. (I could be wrong!) However, when you upload the image it goes into a temporary file. You can resize the temporary image and copy the resized image to its final destination.

This code was adapted from a snippet at FliquidStudios: Resizing images in PHP with GD and Imagick.

Since (it seems) you want to keep the width constant, you don’t really need to do a lot of ratio tests.

Update:

You should be able to simply use this in place of your original code. Most of it is unchanged.

<?php

// resizes an image to fit a given width in pixels.
// works with BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF
// $file is overwritten
function fit_image_file_to_width($file, $w, $mime = 'image/jpeg') {
    list($width, $height) = getimagesize($file);
    $newwidth = $w;
    $newheight = $w * $height / $width;

    switch ($mime) {
        case 'image/jpeg':
            $src = imagecreatefromjpeg($file);
            break;
        case 'image/png';
            $src = imagecreatefrompng($file);
            break;
        case 'image/bmp';
            $src = imagecreatefromwbmp($file);
            break;
        case 'image/gif';
            $src = imagecreatefromgif($file);
            break;
    }

    $dst = imagecreatetruecolor($newwidth, $newheight);
    imagecopyresampled($dst, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $newwidth, $newheight, $width, $height);

    switch ($mime) {
        case 'image/jpeg':
            imagejpeg($dst, $file);
            break;
        case 'image/png';
            imagealphablending($dst, false);
            imagesavealpha($dst, true);
            imagepng($dst, $file);
            break;
        case 'image/bmp';
            imagewbmp($dst, $file);
            break;
        case 'image/gif';
            imagegif($dst, $file);
            break;
    }

    imagedestroy($dst);
}

// init file vars
$pic  = $_FILES['photo']['name'];
$target = 'uploads/' . basename( $_FILES['photo']['name']);
$temp_name = $_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'];
$type = $_FILES["photo"]["type"];

// Connects to your Database 
mysql_connect("hostname", "username", "password") or die(mysql_error()) ; 
mysql_select_db("database") or die(mysql_error()) ; 

// get form data
$name = mysql_real_escape_string(isset($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : 'No name');

//Writes the information to the database 
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `table` (name, photo) VALUES ('$name','$pic')") ; 

// resize the image in the tmp directorys
fit_image_file_to_width($temp_name, 200, $type);

//Writes the photo to the server
if(move_uploaded_file($temp_name, $target)) {

    //Tells you if its all ok 
    echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['photo']['name'] ). " has been uploaded"; 

} else {

    //Gives and error if its not 
    echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file."; 

}

?>