Here is a little snippet to resize an image in php. You need to have the GD library installed to use it, but most of the hosting providers have it activated by default:
function resize_image($destFilename, $srcFilename, $xmax, $ymax) { // detect the extension $extension = explode(".", $srcFilename); $extension = $extension[count($extension)-1]; // load the image if($extension == "jpg" || $extension == "jpeg") $srcImage = imagecreatefromjpeg($srcFilename); elseif($extension == "png") $srcImage = imagecreatefrompng($srcFilename); elseif($extension == "gif") $srcImage = imagecreatefromgif($srcFilename); // detect the original size $x = imagesx($srcImage); $y = imagesy($srcImage); // if the source image is smaller than the destination return if($x <= $xmax && $y <= $ymax) return $srcImage; if($x >= $y) { $newx = $xmax; $newy = $newx * $y / $x; } else { $newy = $ymax; $newx = $x / $y * $newy; } // creates an empty image $destImage = imagecreatetruecolor($newx, $newy); // copy and resize from the original image imagecopyresized($destImage, $srcImage, 0, 0, 0, 0, floor($newx), floor($newy), $x, $y); return $destImage; }