How To Correctly Resize An Image

This is a big problem and often leads to squished images looking very poor. I have developed this simple formula to resize the images without losing their aspect ratio.

function MikesImageResize($width, $height, $target) {

if ($width > $target)
{
$percentage = ($target / $width);
}else
{
$percentage = "1";
}

$width = round($width * $percentage);
$height = round($height * $percentage);

return "width=\"$width\" height=\"$height\"";
}

Its that simple now this will compress an image to the width entered and reduce the height b the same percentage. If the image is smaller than the width it will be displayed centred but will not stretch it so it looks fine

$Images_Width = "200";

$myimages = getimagesize(“images/image1.png”);

echo "<img src='$Image_Name'" . MikesImageResize($myimages[0], $ myimages[1], $Images_Width) . ">";

Simple and elegant, hope this helps.