Scale Image Using PHP and Maintaining Aspect Ratio

Question

Basically I want to upload an image (which i\'ve sorted) and scale it down to certain constraints such as max width and height but maintain the aspect ratio of the original

Answer 1

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    public $font = 'fonts/arialbd.ttf';

    private $img;
    private $trans_colour;
    private $orange;
    private $white; 
    private $whitetr;
    private $blacktr;

    public function PrintAsBase64()
    {
        $this->SetImage();
        ob_start();
        imagepng($this->img);
        $b64img = ob_get_contents();
        ob_clean();
        imagedestroy($this->img);
        $b64img = base64_encode($b64img);
        echo($b64img);
    }
    public function PrintAsImage()
    {
        $this->SetImage();

        header('Content-type: image/png');

        imagepng($this->img);
        imagedestroy($this->img);
    }

    private function SetImage()
    {
        if ($this->imgfile == '') {$this->imgfile='NoImageAvailable.jpg';}
        $this->img          = imagecreatefromstring(file_get_contents($this->imgfile));
        $this->trans_colour = imagecolorallocatealpha($this->img, 0, 0, 0, 127);
        $this->orange       = imagecolorallocate($this->img, 220, 210, 60);
        $this->white        = imagecolorallocate($this->img, 255,255, 255);
        $this->whitetr      = imagecolorallocatealpha($this->img, 255,255, 255, 95);
        $this->blacktr      = imagecolorallocatealpha($this->img, 0, 0, 0, 95);

        if ((!$this->cropped) && ($this->string !=''))
        {$this->watermarkimage();}

        if (($this->new_height > 0) && ($this->new_width > 0)) {$this->ResizeImage();};

        if (($this->cropped) && ($this->string !=''))
        {$this->watermarkimage();}

        imageAlphaBlending($this->img, true);
        imageSaveAlpha($this->img, true);
    }
    ////
    private function ResizeImage()
    {
        # v_fact and h_fact are the factor by which the original vertical / horizontal
        # image sizes should be multiplied to get the image to your target size.
        $v_fact = $this->new_height / imagesy($this->img);//target_height / im_height; 
        $h_fact = $this->new_width / imagesx($this->img);//target_width / im_width;
        # you want to resize the image by the same factor in both vertical 
        # and horizontal direction, so you need to pick the correct factor from
        # v_fact / h_fact so that the largest (relative to target) of the new height/width
        # equals the target height/width and the smallest is lower than the target.
        # this is the lowest of the two factors
        if($this->cropped) 
        {   $im_fact = max($v_fact, $h_fact);   }
        else
        {   $im_fact = min($v_fact, $h_fact);   }

        $new_height = round(imagesy($this->img) * $im_fact);
        $new_width  = round(imagesx($this->img) * $im_fact);

        $img2 = $this->img;     
        $this->img = imagecreatetruecolor($new_width, $new_height);     
        imagecopyresampled($this->img, $img2, 0, 0, 0, 0, $new_width, $new_height, imagesx($img2), imagesy($img2));

        $img2 = $this->img;     
        $this->img = imagecreatetruecolor($this->new_width, $this->new_height);
        imagefill($this->img, 0, 0, $this->trans_colour);

        $dstx = 0;
        $dsty = 0;
        if ($this->cropped)
        {
            if (imagesx($this->img) < imagesx($img2))
            {   $dstx = round((imagesx($this->img)-imagesx($img2))/2); }

            if (imagesy($this->img) < imagesy($img2))
            {   $dsty = round((imagesy($this->img)-imagesy($img2))/2); }
        }
        else
        {
            if (imagesx($this->img) > imagesx($img2))
            {   $dstx = round((imagesx($this->img)-imagesx($img2))/2); }

            if (imagesy($this->img) > imagesy($img2))
            {   $dsty = round((imagesy($this->img)-imagesy($img2))/2); }
        }

        imagecopy ( $this->img, $img2, $dstx, $dsty, 0, 0, imagesx($img2) , imagesy($img2));
        imagedestroy($img2);        
    }   

    ////

    private function calculateTextBox($text,$fontFile,$fontSize,$fontAngle) 
    { 
        /************ 
        simple function that calculates the *exact* bounding box (single pixel precision). 
        The function returns an associative array with these keys: 
        left, top:  coordinates you will pass to imagettftext 
        width, height: dimension of the image you have to create 
        *************/ 
        $rect = imagettfbbox($fontSize,$fontAngle,$fontFile,$text); 
        $minX = min(array($rect[0],$rect[2],$rect[4],$rect[6])); 
        $maxX = max(array($rect[0],$rect[2],$rect[4],$rect[6])); 
        $minY = min(array($rect[1],$rect[3],$rect[5],$rect[7])); 
        $maxY = max(array($rect[1],$rect[3],$rect[5],$rect[7])); 

        return array( 
        "left"   => abs($minX) - 1, 
        "top"    => abs($minY) - 1, 
        "width"  => $maxX - $minX, 
        "height" => $maxY - $minY,
        "box"    => $rect ); 
    }

    private function watermarkimage($font_size=0)
    {
        if ($this->string == '')
        {die('Watermark function call width empty string!');}

        $box = $this->calculateTextBox($this->string, $this->font, $font_size, $this->angle);
        while ( ($box['width'] < imagesx($this->img)) && ($box['height'] < imagesy($this->img)) && ($font_size <= $this->max_font_size) )
        {
            $font_size++;
            $box = $this->calculateTextBox($this->string, $this->font, $font_size, $this->angle);   
        }

        $font_size--;
        $box = $this->calculateTextBox($this->string, $this->font, $font_size, $this->angle);

        $vcenter = round((imagesy($this->img) / 2) + ($box['height'] / 2));  
        $hcenter = round((imagesx($this->img) - $box['width']) / 2 );

        imagettftext($this->img, $font_size, $this->angle, $hcenter, $vcenter, $this->blacktr, $this->font, $this->string);     
        imagettftext($this->img, $font_size, $this->angle, $hcenter+1, $vcenter-2, $this->whitetr, $this->font, $this->string);
    }
}
?>

Also I have been using the accepted answer but it does not keep the ratio in some cases. I have found some good answers on the forum and have put them in together and finally created a Class which resizes an image. As extra function u can put a watermark text.

u can see what happens when choose to crop or not, if not a transparent area will be added to the new resized image.

This example is more than asked, but I think it is a good example.