How to Resize images on Server Side
I found this amazing small little image resizing code which will resize and display images quickly. All resizing i done on server side. Original Source

“The code uses PHP to resize an image (currently only jpeg). Using this method, the resized image is of much better quality than a browser-side resizing. The file size of the new downsized image is also smaller (quicker to download).

The code comes in two parts:

• imageResizer() is used to process the image
• loadimage() inserts the image url in a simpler format”

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