[selowitch]

On one of my websites, I'd like to add the ability to resize images on the fly based on the resolution of the screen being used to view them. As a bonus, I'd love to be able to compose the annotations for each image in the font of my choosing (this lets me control the typography of *small* bits of text in ways not usually possible on the web). I'm thinking of doing this via ImageMagick, called by PHP (possibly through the aid of Magickwand for PHP).

My question is whether this is worth the effort. It seems installing these things is quite difficult.
Does anybody have a PHP script that will check for the presence of a working installation of Imagemagick, perchance?

[Millennium]

I haven't tried using PHP with ImageMagick before, but have you considered using the gd library extension? I'm not sure it's as powerful, but I think it may be able to do what you want without as much hassle. That said, I see another possible problem: how will you get PHP to access the user's screen resolution?

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by Millennium

I haven't tried using PHP with ImageMagick before, but have you considered using the gd library extension? I'm not sure it's as powerful, but I think it may be able to do what you want without as much hassle.

Do you have a link?

Originally Posted by Millennium

how will you get PHP to access the user's screen resolution?

I can't. I'll be using JavaScript for that, the pass the data to PHP for processing, then back to a JavaScript window.resize function, I imagine.

[madmacgames]

http://www.php.net/gd

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by madmacgames

http://www.php.net/gd

Thanks. I was just reading that very page when your message came in. :-)