调整图像大小而不实际更改文件夹中的图像

Question

so I'm using Autocomplete. I'm using it to display images left to the search results. The image displayed is from the products table, and that image is a around 400x400 px. But, in the autocomplete, it wouldn't be possible to show that image. Suppose I need an image of 50x50 px, how would I make the function that re-sizes the image (just to show) and the actual image is still 400x400 px ?

Here's my products table :-

productid         productname  price  image
autoincrement       somename    100    ../productimages/someimage.extension

Now this image is available in php as $result->image. I have no idea as to how I can start. Any suggestions are welcome.

Answer 1

It would be a lot of hassle to save a temporary image etc. Why don't you just display it in HTML using the desired width?

<img src="someimage.extension" class="thumbnail"/>
<style>
    .thumbnail {
        width: 50px;
    }
</style>