RE: Feature Request - Thumbnails

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[quote="loxly"]This sounds intriging (I'm sure I spelled it wrong).

Is it faster than using a program like Photoshop to create the images?  I usually run the conversion as a batch process while I am sleeping and hope it is done by morning. :)  (I only have a P3 with 256K)[/quote]
(you mean 256 MB?)

(I used to use DeBabilizer for stuff like this, but I gather that PhotoShop finally got a macro facility?)

If you're useng the osCommerce admin/product page to do the upload, then, you could skip the batch process altogether.  If you're uploading two images per product (thumbnail & full-size image) the bandwidth will be the same.  As far as the time needed to create the thumbnail for each picture -- it'd be on the order of milliseconds -- you wouldn't notice it.  And it wouldn't be the memory hog that PS is.

You could take it one step further & implement an XML batch process to upload all product info & images, but I'd be satisfied with the simple interface.

There are a couple of things to include to make the control safe for scripting, but not too much.  BTW, I checked out the Image Magic code in more detail.  It looks like they've done most of the work to create the control.  I don't know, however, if it is script safe or not.