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Depending upon how it's done,
Learn how to use the GD
displaying a page of
library in PHP
thumbnail images can be very
cumbersome. Allowing the
browser to resize images
requires the client browser
to download the entire,
full-size image, then
clumsily resize the image to
a specified size. This
causes the page to load very
slowly and creates
unavoidable distortion in
the resulting images. The
other option is to make
separate thumbnail images
for each individual image.
This is fine if you only
plan to display a few
images, but becomes
unrealistic on a large scale
or a site involving dynamic
images. Fortunately there
are ways around these
problems using the GD
library in PHP.
Date: Apr, 19 2005 Date: Aug, 28 2003 |