A PHP 5 Class for manipulating images. It features the ability to scale by percentage, width, height, and to create a square crop of an image.
Unlike other image manipulation classes, this one allows multiple manipulations of an image, with the ability to save it multiple times, and display the image without saving. This is useful for dynamic thumbnail generation and display.
Welcome to Gen X Design. The name’s a little corny, I know, but it’s one of those things I’ve used since I was a kid.
Anyway, I built this site for me (and some friends) to share their thoughts and ideas. I love all things web 2.0, shiny icons, and gradients. I live in the San Francisco Bay area, work for eMeter, and am sometimes available for contract work.
Mozilla announced a new feature for add-ons today: collections. It also looks like they’re getting the ball rolling with several useful collections, such as the Web Developer Collection. It includes all sorts of goodness like Firebug, ySlow, GreaseMonkey, ColorZilla, and many more. Well worth a quick visit.
FireFox Web Developer Collection
David Walsh has put together a really handy plugin for MooTools called ScrollSpy. What impressed me the most was the automatic display of a “Return to Top” link on your page once you’ve scrolled beyond a certain boundary. There are also a handful of other neat demos worth checking out. Sounds simple, but if you think about it, there are tons of great applications for this plugin.
http://davidwalsh.name/scrollspy
It’s been said a thousand times I’m sure, but picking the right JavaScript framework is a pain. There are all sorts of biased arguments for one vs. another, but there’s really nothing subjective out there… until now. Arguably, jQuery is probably the most popular JS framework out in the wild, but that doesn’t always mean it’s the best choice. What you choose should really depend on what you’re trying to do. Aaron Newton of Clientcide has put together a really impressive look at jQuery vs. MooTools, which doesn’t categorically say one is better than the other, but, rather, goes into detail about why one framework is better than the other based on your needs. Definitely worth a read:
www.jqueryvsmootools.com
ORM is certainly a very popular concept these days, but I haven’t really come across any PHP implementations that I found worth-while. Sure, big frameworks like CakePHP may have ORM functionality, but I’m not a fan of huge frameworks. I’ve also dabbled in my own implementations, but never got too far, as I’m not a fan of re-inventing the wheel. At any rate, I stumbled across Doctrine by accident (good ol’ RSS readers), and am impressed, mostly because it’s something that can be integrated into existing projects / frameworks.
www.doctrine-project.org
Ajaxload.info used to be the site of choice when it came to generating preloader images… unfortunately, I think it’s been bested. Preloaders.net allows you to generate not only the standard set of preloaders, but even 3D ones! You also get much more control (size, speed, etc.) and the quality of the final images is impressive. Definitely worth checking out.
www.preloaders.net
yitzi
Aug 21 '08 at 11:16 am
i have downloaded this class for php5.0 and it’s work’s well with jpg. but when i put some gif picture it returns me an error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function ImageGif() in C:\wamp\www\tmb\thumbnail.inc.php on line 469
i’m running WAMP server 5.0
thanks(i really liked this class exept for this error
AFisher
Dec 3 '08 at 7:33 pm
Great class… is there an easy way to convert an image to grey scale / sepia tone?
Josh Davey
Dec 28 '08 at 5:02 pm
Hey Ian,
Great class. Thanks.
Me
Jan 14 '09 at 3:38 am
Thank you for your PHP Thumbnailer Class!
mmx
Mar 28 '09 at 3:02 am
Hi
is this class support file types ( jpg, gif, png,bmp )
thank you very much
Tonyweboss
May 28 '09 at 2:15 am
This class have replace my old hft_image! Thank you!
Jay
Oct 9 '09 at 5:45 am
Great script! Thumbs up for you!
keevitaja
Nov 24 '09 at 1:30 pm
hello,
i’m tryng to make an account for phpthumb forums. i’m not getting the email promised… any help
Ian
Nov 25 '09 at 11:19 am
Yeah, looks like there’s an issue with my mail server: http://phpthumb.gxdlabs.com/forums/topic/spammers-ruin-everything-why-you-cant-register