have no idea how to deal with thumbnails.. i have seen a lot of tutorials but is like none of them make sense at all..is there any place where i can find a nice detialed tutorial on how to make thumbnails of pictures that are already in a directory..or when they are been uploaded to the site.. and how to out put them becuase i t ried to use the code in the same page and it show all the page source code..

What platform are you using?

Ibbo

i use windows i'm with yahoo.. i just dont know how to do thumbnails with php i want a detialed tutorials.. cuz i'm new so i can just look at a code and breake it down..

1. Read php manual on how to manage file uploads
2. Upload image
3. Resize it with imagemagick's mogrify or convert (they are supported by most *x servers) by calling the program through exec().
What can be simplier?

E.g. exec("convert $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'] -scale $width -format jpg $path_to_thumbnail") will resize the uploaded image to $width pixels wide, convert it to jpg and write to $path_to_thumbnail file.

Heres my ImageMagik method

PHP Code:

list($width, $height, $type, $attr) = getimagesize($name);
        $height > $width ?
        exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 150x200  {$name}  -thumbnail 75x100 $filename")
        :
        exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 220x80  {$name}  -thumbnail 110x40 $filename"); 


I prefer ImageMagik (but dont know what kind of support it has on windows) for it is much more flexible and has much more stuff I can use to make better images.

GD is available if you dont have Imagemagik

http://icant.co.uk/articles/phpthumbnails/
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-gd-libraries

Those are just two samples of many many many php-gd tutorials using the search php GD thumbnails.

Ibbo

Imagick has quite the same support on windows as on *x