{"id":57187,"date":"2022-10-29T03:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=57187"},"modified":"2022-10-29T08:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T22:08:14","slug":"image-conversions-via-php-gd-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/image-conversions-via-php-gd-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Conversions via PHP GD Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image Conversions via PHP GD Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Regular readers at this place will know about our admiration for ImageMagick<\/a> and its command line (“convert” for macOS and Linux and “magick.exe” for Windows) image conversion functionality. Even so, ImageMagick is not capable of …<\/p>\n


\nconvert filespec*.*g* *.jpeg
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… type of image conversion, in bulk, kind of processing (which Gimp<\/a> offered with its sadly departed Bimp conversion software in the past)<\/font>. But tailored PHP use of the GD<\/a> (image manipulation) library, helped out by (good ol’)<\/font> PHP glob<\/a>, is!<\/p>\n

And so, we’ve written a “proof of concept” converter that you can run at the RJM Programming domain, but we’d recommend for use with an Apache\/PHP local web server like MAMP<\/a> is! (Two in one blog posting is a record … is!)<\/p>\n

Get into MAMP, and you might want to download convert_wildcard.php<\/a> PHP source code to MAMP’s Document Root folder. Else, try it here<\/a> or below …<\/p>\n