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I have created an image indexing program, but I can only get the images to be one size on the thumbnail page. My horizontal picture look ok, but my vertical pictures are smooshed. The program scans the directory and prints all the pictures that it finds. Is there a way to find out the image info automatically without entering it into another file and then reading the info from that file? Any help would be appreciated.

Can you show us the script?

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Here is the main part that reads what's in the directory.


Any help would be appreciated. If you want to see the the script working, go HERE . Thanks.

This message has been edited by tigerarch on November 16, 2000 at 10:30 PM

It's possible in PHP. To do it in perl you'd need to rip the data out of the file itself, and check the format first.

He's not trying to do it in PHP, Dufus.
Show us the first part of the file. Like, the first 17 lines.

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But it still could be done in PHP. Sorry, gotta plug for it

There are licensing problems with GIFs and JPEGs, so you may not be able to, but I'm pretty sure there's an image module floating around somewhere.
You might have to limit yourself to PNGs for a while, though. Or use uncompressed GIFs.

You could download and install the Image::Size module from CPAN. Then just do:


use Image::Size;

my ($width, $height) = imgsize('path/to/your/file.gif');


--mark

Mark, isn't that something I have to install on the server? I can't do that since I don't host my own site. That sounds like a pretty good idea though. Is there any other way?

I wish I could use PHP, but I don't think my host allows it. Maybe its time for a new host...

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That module may very well be one of the ones that you can download and just keep the pm file in a directory of your choice, without needing to install on the server.

You'll need to create a directory called Image (Case sensitive!) and place Size.pm (also case sensetive) in there.

Make sure the script accessing it has

use lib '/whatever/path/to/Image';

in it.

--mark

Thanks Mark. I will try that and see if it works. Where do I get that module from?

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http://cpan.perl.org/

you can search for it there.

--mark