They have one neat feature called SmushIt. This can cut down image sizes up to 80% which ofcourse has a massive impact on your page’s loading time.

However, once a project has finished, and there is some sort of image generation in the backend of the website, or a file uploading system, we also want those images to be as fast as possible, and therefor I have written this PHP class. Lets hope Yahoo still likes me after this.

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How it works:

You pass the image you want to smush, and the url of the result image to the class, and thats it!

<?
require_once('SmushIt.php');
 
$goto = dirname(__FILE__);
 
$smush = new SmushIt;
$smush->base = 'http://www.frankbr.nl/projects/smushit/';
 
if( !$smush->smush('img/image.png','img/image-smushed.png') ) {
  echo $smush->msg;
} else {
  echo 'saved: ' . $smush->savings . 'kb (' . $smush->savings_perc . '%)';
}

Demo:

Demo page
Unsmushed image
Smushed image

Download:

Click here to download SmushIt.php

Video

Bekijk de video op Youtube: Westforest 2009

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