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[nycphp-talk] Creating Avatar Images

tedd tedd at sperling.com
Fri Oct 12 09:40:10 EDT 2007


At 8:27 PM -0400 10/11/07, Ben Sgro \(ProjectSkyLine\) wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I'm sure this has been done a bunch of times and answered even more.
>
>I looked around google and I just want to the most basic implementation
>I can find. Something in PEAR would be nice, but I'd like the "user friendly"
>wrapping of calls to already be done.
>
>I want to allow users to upload images (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, gif, etc) to use
>as an avatar for an online application.
>
>What's the best 3rd party lib for doing this. It will need to resize 
>to approriate
>sizes (maybe even convert to a common format) and I need it to be secure,
>no "file.gif.php" or #> cat "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > img.php hacks.
>
>Thanks for the ideas!!!!!
>
>- Ben

Ben:

What's the difference between an avatar and any other 80 x 80 pixels graphic?

If there is no difference, then why not do it yourself? It's a fairly 
simple thing to upload a graphic and scale it to 80 x 80 pixels.

Cheers,

tedd


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