bulk resize your images for pof ads and facebook

When you are working on a social campaign, like facebook or pof ads, you will find yourself having to resize picture quite often, since many of the images you find will be a lot bigger.

Have you been doing these manually, or have you been doing this in bulk ? You could potentially save quite a bit of them if you automated the resizing part of your campaign creation, allowing for more time to look for pictures for your ad.

Here is a simple script I use often when I need to resize a whole bunch of image to a specific size; I am a LAMP guy and this script uses the “convert” command on Linux.

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<?php
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$directory = "/home/username/toberesized";
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$resizedDirectory = "/home/username/toberesized/resized";
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$handle = opendir($directory);
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/* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
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while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
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  if (preg_match("/jpg$/", $file)) {
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    `convert -geometry 120x120 $directory/$file $resizedDirectory/$file`;
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 }
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?>
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• Save this code as imageResize.php.
• On your linux server, upload all of your images to a specific folder, for example /home/username/toberesized
• Within this folder, created a subfolder named “resized”
• Also, to change the target image size, simply change the 120×120 to your desired image size.

Once that is done, simply update the following lines in the code, to tell the scrip where your images are located:
$directory = “/home/username/toberesized”;
$resizedDirectory = “/home/username/toberesized/resized”;

Once this is done, simply run this imageResize.php script with this command: php imageResize.

You will then see all of your original image, resized to the specific size with the same name, under the “resized” folder you specified.

to success,