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Generating Thumbnail Images

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PHP has an extensive range of functions designed to work with images. You’ve already met one of them, getimagesize(), in Chapter 4. As well as providing useful information about an image’s dimensions, PHP can manipulate images by resizing or rotating them. It can also add text dynamically without affecting the original and can even create images on the fly.

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Powers, D. (2014). Generating Thumbnail Images. In: PHP Solutions. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0635-5_8

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