image resize help

[eluser]Flemming[/eluser]
This is not entirely the answer you were looking for but it *may* help you...

First, yes you need GD installed on your server for any resizing. Or you can use ImageMagick instead, but GD is more commonly installed I believe - so first off, find out if it's installed on your server. It is NOT part of CI - it is a PHP module. If in doubt, run a phpinfo() script on your server, that will tell you if GD or ImageMagick are installed.

Next - consider using something like this for thumbnails instead: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/tim...-released/

It still depends on GD, no getting around that unfortunately. But it is a very quick, efficient, easy-to-implement, flexible solution for resizing and cropping images.

HTH !