global image sizer

[zxmax]

Greeting all,
i was wondering if there is any way i could have a global settings (either on the application.cfm file or in the root) that will output any picture on a certain pages with a specific size here is a one line eg:
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<td><a href="details_rebuild_trucks.cfm?ID=#Rebuild.carID#"><img src="#Rebuild.CarImage1#" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
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Notice the image path is coming from a database
now i would like to have that =#Rebuild.CarImage1# or any images in that page, no matter what size it is, to be set to, lets say 200 x 200
is that possibe, or i have to go with image resizing ?

Thanks in advance

 

[TruthInSatire]

You may want to look into a 3rd party image thumbnailer.

I use Alagad's Image Componant.

http://www.alagad.com/index.cfm/name-aic

It was only 50 dollars and has some great features. I tried using the free one, i can't remember its name. This one works a lot better in my opinion.

It will create an image thumbnail any size you want. when you want to show the image you would show the thumbnail. The way I use this is on upload i thumbnail the image. if the size for all images changes I use cffile to delete the thumbnails, loop through the images in the DB and rethumbnail them the correct size.

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