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Unix Tools for Graphics Professionals
 
   
  • Create a Picture Archive
    • If storing the files inside of MySQL isn't a good idea, you can store the actual files elsewhere and instead store a thumbnail & file location
    • Either way, you need to have a thumbnail.
    • PHP also supports image manipulation inside of the language using the GD library.
    • GD library is another graphics library, similar to ImageMagick
    • If not, you can call the command-line versions of ImageMagick programs, and create thumbnails using that.
    • Having done that, you can store a smaller version of the file along with the large version
 
   
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