aspSmartImage discontinued - Alternatives?

[csiwa28]

We've recently upgraded to IIS 6 and it looks like the aspSmartImage component isn't compatible with IIS 6. Unfortunately, AspSmart is out of business and their products were just discontinued.

1. Does anyone know if there's an upgraded DLL somewhere? Their other component we use, aspSmartUpload is compatible with IIS 6.

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2. Can anyone recommend an alternative component that will dynamically resize an image when it is uploaded?

Thanks in advance.

 

[johnwm]

Wow! I see you've been a member here for nearly 7 years, and you haven't yet answered ANY questions for other people! To get a feeling for how these forums are supposed to work, have a look at faq222-2244, especially paragraphs 15 and 16

For this question, it may be worth looking at PHP. Most PHP installations will have image uploading and resizing as a standard function. Have a look for imagecreatetruecolor and imagecopyresampled. For basics on PHP try

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp.

For image processing try

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php.

You can also get PHP support in forum434.

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[MrPlough69]

Hi csiwa28,

I can recommend ImageMagik as an alternative, it also happens to be free. You can get it at:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

 

[csiwa28]

Thanks for the PHP suggestions johnwm and MrPlough69. I'll take a look at them.