Compress Image Before Upload using PHP

Image manipulation is always one of the most typical tasks for a software developer. It is very common to upload images to the server. Large images are upload and that takes too much time load and effects web application ranking. So the uploaded images are very important and it should be reduced as much as possible. Users mostly upload their images for setting their profile image or to submit files and more.
In this tutorial, we will learn you how to reduce or compress image size while uploading using PHP. We will cover this tutorial in easy steps with live demo to Compress Image Before Upload using PHP.
Before started to implement the Compress Image Before Upload using PHP, look files structure:
  • compress-image-before-upload-using-php
    • assets
      • css
        • style.css
      • uploads
      • images
    • templates
      • header.php
      • footer.php
    • index.php
    • upload.php
Step 1: Create File Upload HTML Form
Create an HTML form with a input file type field and a submit button. Make sure the
tag contains the following attributes.
  • method='post'
  • enctype='multipart/form-data'
  

Compress Image Before Upload using PHP

Step 2: Compress and Upload Image with PHP
Create action file named upload.php handles the image compression and upload