Batch process of Image (resizing)

[SpooF]

June 26th, 2008, 4:53 pm

I'm looking into making a script that will batch process a large amount of images, anything from 10 to 200 or so pictures at a time. I haven't worked with PHP in this form to much and was wondering if a single PHP script could do this? I know it really depends on the server, but in general how long do you think it would take? Should I instead look into something like python? Image sizes will range from 1mb to 5mb each.

June 26th, 2008, 5:45 pm

I don't see why there'd be a problem as long as you raised the default 30 second timeout limit.

[joebert]

June 26th, 2008, 8:02 pm

The batch processor I use (Phatch) is written in Python. I don't know whether it's because Python is being used, but it's many times faster than the Imagemagick script I tried.

I realize Phatch is a desktop application and you're looking for PHP, but in all actuality the PHP script I was using shelled the image work out to the Imagemagick command like client, which seems to be the norm.

[SpooF]

June 26th, 2008, 8:36 pm

The limit is some reason I might just write a python script to do it for me. I have 60mb of memory allocated to me on my server.