Question

I’ve read some time ago about the idea of generating a thumbnail image from a bigger image not starting from the top left corner but from the center of the bigger image.

Can anybody tell how to do that with php?

Answer 1

For resizing of any kind, you usually use one of the imagecopy methods:

imagecopy ( resource $dst_im , resource $src_im , int $dst_x , int $dst_y ,
            int $src_x , int $src_y , int $src_w , int $src_h )

The src_ parameters specify what part of the source image to copy. Just make that anything other than 0, 0.