1 Reply Latest reply: Jul 17, 2014 11:05 AM by jyeager11 RSS

    Dynamically resizing images in PHP: Is a server-side cache folder necessary?

    jyeager11 Community Member

      I am familiar with TimThumb, which resizes images on the fly. It does this by creating and filling a cache folder on your server with these new automatically-generated images.

       

      But I'd hear rumors that there was a way to do this without leaving as big a footprint on the server. In other words, without ending up with a cache folder full of images that just pile up over time. However, Googling the subject has yielded no results indicating that this is possible.

       

      Am I chasing ghosts? Is a server-side cache folder really the only way to serve a dynamically-resized image in PHP to an end user?