php and thumbnails

[gymshoe]

I'm trying to make a page that has thumbnails of pictures where you can click on them and it will bring up a page with the full size picture and some text.
Looking at past postings of thumbnails, it seems I need to use a program to generate those thumbnails.[nbsp][nbsp]So then what?
am I going to have to store two of the same image on the server? one thumbnail and one full size?[nbsp][nbsp]Is there a way to convert images into thumbnails on the fly with php?

Thanks for the help.

-James

[janderk]

My company happens to make Arles Image Web Page Creator to do just that. Visit the following links for examples, screenshots and an shareware download:

http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/

I would recommend very much against generating thumbnails or do any image processing on a server. It eats *lots* of processing time and if your sites is even mildly popular this will chew up the processor and probably get your site killed.

Jan Derk