Image resize before upload

Question

I need to provide a means for a user to upload photos to their web site in jpeg format. However, the photos are very large in original size, and I would like to make the re

Answer 1

You can resize the image in the client-side before uploading it using an image processing framework.

Below I used MarvinJ to create a runnable code based on the example in the following page: "Processing images in client-side before uploading it to a server"

Basically I use the method Marvin.scale(...) to resize the image. Then, I upload the image as a blob (using the method image.toBlob()). The server answers back providing a URL of the received image.

/***********************************************
 * GLOBAL VARS
 **********************************************/
var image = new MarvinImage();

/***********************************************
 * FILE CHOOSER AND UPLOAD
 **********************************************/
 $('#fileUpload').change(function (event) {
	form = new FormData();
	form.append('name', event.target.files[0].name);
	
	reader = new FileReader();
	reader.readAsDataURL(event.target.files[0]);
	
	reader.onload = function(){
		image.load(reader.result, imageLoaded);
	};
	
});

function resizeAndSendToServer(){
  $("#divServerResponse").html("uploading...");
	$.ajax({
		method: 'POST',
		url: 'https://www.marvinj.org/backoffice/imageUpload.php',
		data: form,
		enctype: 'multipart/form-data',
		contentType: false,
		processData: false,
		
	   
		success: function (resp) {
       $("#divServerResponse").html("SERVER RESPONSE (NEW IMAGE):
");
		},
		error: function (data) {
			console.log("error:"+error);
			console.log(data);
		},
		
	});
};

/***********************************************
 * IMAGE MANIPULATION
 **********************************************/
function imageLoaded(){
  Marvin.scale(image.clone(), image, 120);
  form.append("blob", image.toBlob());
}

				


Resize and Send to Server