Hi All,
i have a thumbnail generator function
PHP Code:
function createThumbs( $pathToImages, $pathToThumbs, $thumbWidth )
{
// open the directory
$dir = opendir( $pathToImages );
// loop through it, looking for any/all JPG files:
while (false !== ($fname = readdir( $dir ))) {
// parse path for the extension
$info = pathinfo($pathToImages . $fname);
// continue only if this is a JPEG image
if ( strtolower($info['extension']) == 'jpg' )
{
#echo "Creating thumbnail for {$fname} <br />";
// load image and get image size
$img = imagecreatefromjpeg( "{$pathToImages}{$fname}" );
$width = imagesx( $img );
$height = imagesy( $img );
// calculate thumbnail size
$new_width = $thumbWidth;
$new_height = $thumbWidth;#floor( $height * ( $thumbWidth / $width ) );
// create a new temporary image
$tmp_img = imagecreatetruecolor( $new_width, $new_height );
// copy and resize old image into new image
imagecopyresized( $tmp_img, $img, 0, 0, 0, 0, $new_width, $new_height, $width, $height );
// save thumbnail into a file
imagejpeg( $tmp_img, "{$pathToThumbs}{$fname}" );
}
}
// close the directory
closedir( $dir );
}?>
the thumbnails that are created are created by resizing the width and height to a set size 148px in my case. so it creates a square.
now because its just resizing the images they are distorted and dont look as good as they could/should. i looked on facebooks gallery and they have a square thumbnail image similar to mine but it is perfect no stretched images and the main part of the image is always in shot and quite close up.
so my question is how do i modify the above function to produce better quality thumbnails?
many thanks
Luke