Creating an image without storing it as a local file

Question

Here\'s my situation - I want to create a resized jpeg image from a user uploaded image, and then send it to S3 for storage, but am looking to avoid writing the resized jpeg

Answer 1

The Imagemagick library will let you do that. There are plenty of PHP wrappers like this one around for it (there's even example code for what you want to do on that page ;) )