Question

I have a function that pulls images from an external location and the arrive with the proportions of 952 x 390 but they are displayed on my site 960 by 380 is there anyway using PHP that I could change the ratio so they do not look so stretched?

Answer 1

Use the codigniters Image Library and parse maintain_ratio as one of the attributes

 $this->load->library('image_lib');

 $params = array();
 $params['source_image'] = /path/to/image
 $params['new_image'] = /path/to/mynewimage
 $params['width'] = 960;
 $params['height'] = 380; //leave height or with only for aspect ratio to work
 $params['maintain_ratio'] = true;
 $this->image_lib->initialize($params);
 $this->image_lib->resize();