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Hi, I just joined this site after learning about ImageMagick in the past few days!

As a newbie, I'm trying to navigate my way through all the VERY helpful scripts, but some of this is beyond my scope - I apologize if this question has been asked before, but is there a place to post jobs for developers?

I have a MySQL database with a field that contains image URLs.. I have permission to create local thumbnails of these images on my own site, but don't know how to automate this process. The goal would be to have my site use the new (local) thumbnail copy, with a link to the original image. ImageMagick appears to be the solution.

If someone can point me in the right direction, that would be great. I didn't want to post the project on a (general) freelance script site as I'm looking for the ImageMagick expertise.

Thanks!

You are permitted, as I understand, to post want ads for jobs involving IM here in the Developer's forum.

Do you want to create the thumbnail on upload - that is what I do. I then put the thumbnail in one folder and the large image in another with the same name.

If your images are already on the server you could have some code that loops through and creates the thumbnails.

Are you using php?

Thanks for the quick response!

Yes, I would like a script that would loop through all the images (various names & sizes), then create a thumbnail copy on my server. However images aren't uploaded on the site, there is only an external image URL in a database field. I recently installed a php "image cache" utility (creates a copy of the image on my server when the image is called in a browser), but I'm not sure it's the perfect solution.

Having a local thumbnail would allow me to control the maximum size on my site. I have a standard server - Linux, Apache, PHP, with SSH access.

If there are canned scripts available (to purchase), I'm pretty good at customizing variables.. but I'm also willing to pay for an original script!

The Imagemagick part is quite straight forward using php: The php/mysql part is a bit more involved; I can write you some code if you are interested.