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[Phillip Powell]

Ok, facing both "fully customizable solution" and "manual resizing", I 
am using the GD library to do so, what would you do in this scenario, 
would you just come up with an arbitrary size (e.g., 115) and factor the 
new image size to that, somehow recalculating height and width and 
presto, new image?

Phil

Dan Cech wrote:

> Phillip Powell wrote:
>
>> The class is being used to literally generate a thumbnail from an 
>> existing image.  I read in the PHP manual (see 
>> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.exif-thumbnail.php ) that 
>> exif_thumbnail() only extracts embedded thumbnail information from a 
>> TIFF or JPEG image.
>
>
> There is your answer, it will *only* work on an image which has an 
> *embedded* thumbnail, which is not many images.
>
> You need to look at the GD or NetPBM or ImageMagick functions for 
> resizing images if you want to be able to reliably create thumbnails.
>
>> At this point, however, I am receiving nothing into the 
>> $thumbStreamObj binary stream string variable; it's "empty" (false):
>
>
> Your images almost definitely *do not* contain embedded thumbnails.
>
> Dan
>
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