Question

Is there a way with to display an image on a server reduced and resized without saving an reduced one? Like if an image was 500×500 250KB, I want it to display 50×50 45kb in a user’s browser.

If there isn’t a way, how can I temporarily create one to go to a folder and delete later after sometime has pasted?

Answer 1

header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($url);
$thumbImage = imagecreatetruecolor(50, 50);
imagecopyresized($thumbImage, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, 50, 50, 500, 500);
imagejpeg($thumbImage,"",85);
imagedestroy($image);
imagedestroy($thumbImage);

But you should cache the result somehow to lower the load on the server.