Resizing Uploaded Image File in PHP

In this tutorial, I will show you a way how to upload images in PHP with reduced quality and resized resolution. This kind of feature might be helpful to your current or future project that uploads and displays lots of images. It will help your project load the pages faster even there are a lot of images are being shown because instead of displaying the original size and quality of the images is optimized. For example, you are developing a Blog Site and each blog or article has a thumbnail or banner image.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to resize the image file before saving it into a directory using PHP and GD Library. This process is really useful when you are developing a web application using PHP Language which has some features that include uploading Image files such as system users avatar, image/gallery thumbnails, and etc.

PHP GD extension/library offers Graphics Drawing toos to manage image data such as cropping, compressing, filtering, and etc.