The Little Guy
10-17-2006, 02:23 PM
I know someone who is making a script called "ImgUpload 3.0" I gave him an Idea to make it so that the thumbnail images are created on the fly.
Here is his reply:
My only concern would be memory effeciency. A call to the GD library each time you visit the directory, for each image, might impact the overall server negatively. Although, if there was a way to check for a file's data existance in cache, it could work(same thing I had planned for bandwidth monitering).
What would the Pros, and the Cons of using this method be? As for an image hosting service would this be a suggested way to go or would you store the thumbnails on the server?
Here is his reply:
My only concern would be memory effeciency. A call to the GD library each time you visit the directory, for each image, might impact the overall server negatively. Although, if there was a way to check for a file's data existance in cache, it could work(same thing I had planned for bandwidth monitering).
What would the Pros, and the Cons of using this method be? As for an image hosting service would this be a suggested way to go or would you store the thumbnails on the server?