Lesson 23 - Finishing the Image library for PHP
In the previous lesson, Image library for working with images in PHP, we started working on an Image class which is used for image manipulation. In today's tutorial, we'll add the remaining functionality to it, i.e. scaling, cropping, watermarks and mime-type validation.
Scaling
We'll add several methods for scaling images. Let's start with a generic method for scaling image to any width and height:
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