Question

I have a Folder called “Gallery” inside which i have created a folder for Thumbails called “Gallery-Thumbs”, where i manually add thumbnails.

My question is whether it is better to manually add thumbnails or create thumbnails dynamically using “GD” or “ImageMagick”.

Problems with adding Thumbnails manually

• If i forget to add a thumbnail for photo the chain of the Gallery breaks
• It is tedious to resize all the images for creating the thumbnails

So does using PHP ImageProcessing function add additional overhead in creating thumbnails or is the correct approach?

— Updated for answering Queries

1. How you add images to the “gallery” folder?

   • Through Direct file upload

2. How those images and thumbnails are accessed?

   • I use glob to get list of files in respective folders

3. How do you (want to) map images to thumbnails?

   • For thumbnails i use imageName-thumb.jpg,
     so they appear in the list in the same order as they are in main image folder

Answer 1

Use PHP to create thumbnails once and save them in a “thumbnails” directory with the same file names. Then use these now-ready-to-be-used thumbnails directly.