PHP: Resize Image and Store to File

While there are a lot of methods for you to resize images with php, we will be using extension gd this time. Make sure you or your hosting company has installed it in the php distribution by running

<?php
if (extension_loaded('gd')) { // return true if the extension’s loaded.
	echo 'Installed.';
} else {
	if (dl('gd.so')) { // dl() loads php extensions on the fly.
		echo 'Installed.';
	} else {
		echo 'Not installed.';
	}
}
?>

If the output is ‘Installed.’, let’s proceed to resize some images in php.

This image resize script is meant for shot photos because it works better with bitmap images such as .jpg and .bmp. If you need to keep transparency in the output, the code below will not help you.

PHP Resize Image Class

Basically, this class is created with the source image ($originalFile, the full path to the image) to be resized. When you initiate method resize() which takes in 2 parameters, new width ($newWidth) and the target file ($targetFile, full path to the destination image file) that would be storing the resized image, it goes like this:

1. Get the original width and height of the image.
2. Calculate the new height given the new width – you could easily tweak the code yourself to resize the image by a new height.
3. Resize the image by the help of gd.
4. Store the resized image in $targetFile, optionally erasing the old file before dumping the data because chances are you just want to resize the image and don’t need the old version anymore. However, if it’s just a temporary resize, make $targetFile different from $originalFile.

Class (PHP5):

class ImgResizer {
	private $originalFile = '';
	public function __construct($originalFile = '') {
		$this -> originalFile = $originalFile;
	}
	public function resize($newWidth, $targetFile) {
		if (empty($newWidth) || empty($targetFile)) {
			return false;
		}
		$src = imagecreatefromjpeg($this -> originalFile);
		list($width, $height) = getimagesize($this -> originalFile);
		$newHeight = ($height / $width) * $newWidth;
		$tmp = imagecreatetruecolor($newWidth, $newHeight);
		imagecopyresampled($tmp, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $newWidth, $newHeight, $width, $height);
		if (file_exists($targetFile)) {
			unlink($targetFile);
		}
		imagejpeg($tmp, $targetFile, 85); // 85 is my choice, make it between 0 – 100 for output image quality with 100 being the most luxurious
	}
}

Class (PHP4):

class ImgResizer {
	var $originalFile = '';
	function ImgResizer($originalFile = '') {
		$this -> originalFile = $originalFile;
	}
	function resize($newWidth, $targetFile) {
		if (empty($newWidth) || empty($targetFile)) {
			return false;
		}
		$src = imagecreatefromjpeg($this -> originalFile);
		list($width, $height) = getimagesize($this -> originalFile);
		$newHeight = ($height / $width) * $newWidth;
		$tmp = imagecreatetruecolor($newWidth, $newHeight);
		imagecopyresampled($tmp, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $newWidth, $newHeight, $width, $height);
		if (file_exists($targetFile)) {
			unlink($targetFile);
		}
		imagejpeg($tmp, $targetFile, 85);
	}
}

Class usage

<?php

$work = new ImgResizer('img/me.jpg'); // me.jpg (800x600) is in directory ‘img’ in the same path as this php script.
$work -> resize(400, 'img/me.jpg'); // the old me.jpg (800x600) is now replaced and overwritten with a smaller me.jpg (400x300).

// To store resized image to a new file thus retaining the 800x600 version of me.jpg, go with this instead:
// $work -> resize(400, 'img/me_smaller.jpg');

?>

As I have said, you might want to resize the image by a new height and calculate the width instead of going the other way around as I’ve done thus far, and it’s easy to make your tweak in the class above because height and width are fundamentally the same in dimensions, and no one’s more privileged over the other.

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