[PHP] PHP images server

[Jean-Michel Philippon-Nadeau]

Hi List,

My website uses a lot of external images coming from many different
websites. Those images are sometimes small, sometimes big, and to
reduce the loading time of my pages and for better uniformity, I've
built a small PHP images server that resizes to a predefined set of
dimensions the images if necessary. To save on CPU usage, the resized
version is stored on Amazon AWS.

When requesting an image of a specific size, if the resized image
exists on AWS, that image is used. The images server then redirects
the browser to the AWS URL.

I don't believe having 80 redirections is a very clean solution so, my
question is: How can I optimize my process while keeping the load on
Amazon's servers?

Thanks in advance,

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Re: [PHP] Re: Newbie asks about multi-lingual website strategies

[Jean-Michel Philippon-Nadeau]

Dear Tedd, Dear List,

tedd wrote:
As for being hung-up -- again, I'm clueless. I mistakenly thought that 
anything obtained from the browser was subject to suspicion as is any 
outside data. But apparently you can trust (I realize within certain 
limits) some things provided by the browser -- that's news to me.


You are right. Being suspicious with data coming from the browser is a 
pretty good reflex. But, as long as you use the accept-language header 
only for detecting the user's native language, you do not risk a lot. In 
the worst case, your will set your site's language to something that is 
not the user's native language. In that case, you only need to allow him 
to change this setting manually.


You can base yourself on information provided by the browser, but as you 
say, I believe that we should not rely completely on it. This is why 
allowing the user to change his language, in your case, becomes important.


It's always a balance between risk and usability.

Hope this helps,


Jean-Michel

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