Image Conversions via PHP GD Primer Tutorial
Regular readers at this place will know about our admiration for ImageMagick and its command line (“convert” for macOS and Linux and “magick.exe” for Windows) image conversion functionality. Even so, ImageMagick is not capable of …
convert filespec*.*g* *.jpeg
… type of image conversion, in bulk, kind of processing (which Gimp offered with its sadly departed Bimp conversion software in the past). But tailored PHP use of the GD (image manipulation) library, helped out by (good ol’) PHP glob, is!
And so, we’ve written a “proof of concept” converter that you can run at the RJM Programming domain, but we’d recommend for use with an Apache/PHP local web server like MAMP is! (Two in one blog posting is a record … is!)
Get into MAMP, and you might want to download convert_wildcard.php PHP source code to MAMP’s Document Root folder. Else, try it here or below …
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