Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / March 2006

check this http://www.jmpj.net/jason/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=42FE9800-CF1D-76B8-A91A4880
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I've found CFEXECUTE and ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/ ) to be
sufficient for most things. In large/heavy-use environments it might be memory
intensive with large images, but I think you'll be happy with it. Also,
CFEXECUTE had some problems with some previous CF editions, but MX 7 seemed to
work flawlessly.

Oh, the blog entry also seems to recommend it. I'll second that. ImageMagick
installation is quite easy, if you host the server yourself.

Use CFUPLOAD to upload the image, CFEXECUTE to call ImageMagick (read
cfexecute documentation _carefully_, especially about timeouts!), optionally
CFCONTENT to preview your image right away (from within the same template) if
you wish (CFFLUSH and HTML <img> could also work). CFFILE is also your friend,
if you want to have a temporary folder where all the images are uploaded
(preferably with unique name, when file name conflicts).

In any case, you need to code some CF. Creating a working, solid file/image
manager isn't a short task for anyone, but it's not very difficult either. Just
takes patience.