better way to load images 2

[adddeveloper]

Newbie here!

I have several different pages, 7 to be exact, and they all contain image files w/in a table.

What I'd like to do, to simply speed up the pages, is to use thumbnails instead of the whole picture.

....or some other type of better practice than show the whole image when the page loads.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Thanks!

 

[Abraxus]

I've had fantastic success with the examples on php.net for imagecopyresampled, take a look:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecopyresampled.php

I wrote a photo gallery that creates and uses thumbnails with links to the original images. Let us know if you run into any hangups... this requires PHP with the GD 2.0.1 or later, but I find most builds include everything you need.

 

[adddeveloper]

Thanks ecwcee!

What I ended up doing, and any input is welcome, is took the original image, and with Fireworks, did a numerical transformation to 25% of the original size. Then, simply made the smaller image inside an anchor tag to the larger one.

Thanks again!

 

[djb85]

If it's something you update regularly, you should considering installing a fully fledged photogallery script to backend it, something along the lines of

http://yapig.sourceforge.net/

would be fine, but there are literally countless other ones around the net, so hit up google and see what takes your fancy.