Can we manually resize the thumbnail and intermediate picture before upload?

[papillon]

Hello. Thinking of installing this great program. I want to ask you this. If I understand correctly, coppermine display automatically a thumbnail and an intermediate photo from the original one. This means that it uses a lot of cpu (big problem on share hosting) . Can we manually upload the thumbnail (reduce the size from our pc) and the intermediate (same thing) so we decrease cpu usage?

[Stramm]

yes, this is possible

[papillon]

Could you give me a link or a previous thread on how it's been done?

[Joachim Müller]

Just create the thumbnail and intermediate image on your client as you see fit and then upload the whole enchilada (fulls-ized image, intermediate image and thumbnail) using your favorite FTP app. Then use coppermine's batch-add function to add the file(s) to coppermine's database. The only thing that you'll have to keep in mind is the naming convention for the thumbnail and intermediate images: the thumbnail files are by default prefixed with "thumb_" and the intermediate image is being prefixed with "normal_".
Example: Fullsize image name: "foobar.jpg". Intermediate image: "normal_foobar.jpg". Thumbnail image: "thumb_foobar.jpg"
The default prefixes can be changed to anything you like (in coppermine's config screen).
Anyway: although it is technically possible to do what you're up to, I can't see the point. Coppermine works fine on shared webhosting. If your hosting contract doesn't allow you to resize the images automatically resize the images, you better look for better webhosting.