Trying to generate proportionally cropped thumbnails at a fixed width/height with PHP GD

Question

I\'m trying to create a Thumbnail Generator in PHP with GD that will take an image and reduce it to a fixed width/height. The square it takes from the original image (based on m

Answer 1

I'm sorry if I'm offering an indirect answer. But you could try using this library: PHPThumb. It's very easy to use. It supports GD and has this function called adaptive resizing which resizes the image from the center.

Here's a sample code from the docs for adaptive resizing:

adaptiveResize(175, 175);
$thumb->show();

?>