title: resize images in php with imagemagick on 1&1 hosting
body: <p>I am running out of memory when allowing users to resize images of modern day 12MP or higher cameras. Even some pictures that are only 900kb in size take up a lot more room in memory because it's based on pixel size (i think) so ...</p>
  
  <p>I have SSH access to a 1&amp;1 shared server and I followed their instructions to upload imagemagick and configure/make/install it into a directory on my server. Now what do I have to do in php to do the same thing as </p>
  
  <pre><code>$originalImage = imagecreatefromjpeg($src);
  $finalImage = imagecreatetruecolor($newWidth,$newHeight);
  imagecopyresampled($finalImage, $originalImage, 0, 0, 0, 0, $newWidth, $newHeight, $originalWidth, $originalHeight);
  imagejpeg($finalImage,$saveDest,$jpeg_quality);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the variables are hopefully self explanitory. I was trying to find my way through installing the imagick extension but i got really lost when i read about PECL and PEAR and I really don't want to screw up the working php installation somehow. </p>