There's many, many scripts out there that one can use to create an image gallery, or manipulate images inside of PHP, but what happens if one of them doesn't do exactly what you need? Or, maybe, you can't seem to find a script that does what you need? Well, in this new article from Evolt, they show you how to create a simple ImageMagick script to transform images.

The basic idea is that the images are already on the server, and the script, given some parameters on the URL line, performs the function and returns the results to the browser. It actually creates a new file with the operations performed on it, so don't think that it's just storing it in a cache somewhere.

This is an interesting script, but I'm not sure it's very practical. For starters, calling an external function to resize an image can cause a few issues right there, but just the overhead for it all might not be worth the time. Maybe I'll stick with GD...