Thanks to all replies.
With "on the fly", actually I meant forming 2-3 different size images before
inserting them into the database upon getting the image via file upload,
then serve these images in different pages.
I guess i'm gonna try to implement an AOLServer module using ImageMagick API
to handle my needs.
Thanks again to all.
Haluk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] ImageMagick
> Are you sure you wanna do that "on the fly"? It can be pretty
> expensive to be resizing images for every page request.
>
> From aolServer I call a Perl script that uses the Image::Magick Perl
> extension to resize images. The best feature of this is that I can
> make 4 resized versions while reading the image in once. The Perl
> script writes info to stdout about what it's done so that the
> aolServer can do something about it.
>
> if { [catch {
> set pixel_data_feed [open "| /web/bin/resize-image $image_path
2>>/web/log/image-resize-error.log" r]
> } err_msg] } {
> ...
> } else {
> while { [gets $pixel_data_feed line] >= 0 } {
> ...
> }
> }
>
> This is all done from a scheduled proc so that I don't have to wait
> for resizing after doing an upload.
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:29:49PM +0200, Haluk Tunali wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there an AOLServer module for ImageMagick? Actually, the only
> > functionality I need is resizing the images on the fly. Any other method
of
> > easily implementing this task will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you all.
> >
> > Haluk
>
> --
> Patrick Kelly -- http://www.pk67.com/patrick.html
>
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