Best way to cache resized images using PHP and MySQL

Question

What would be the best practice way to handle the caching of images using PHP.

The filename is currently stored in a MySQL database which is renamed to a GUID on upl

Answer 1

phpThumb is a framework that generates resized images/thumbnails on the fly. It also implements caching and it's very easy to implement.

The code to resize an image is:

will give you a thumbnail of 200 x 200;

It also supports watermarking.

Check it out at: http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/