<?php
 function imageResizer($url, $width, $height) {
  header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
  list($width_orig, $height_orig) = getimagesize($url);
  $ratio_orig = $width_orig/$height_orig;
  if ($width/$height > $ratio_orig) {
   $width = $height*$ratio_orig;
  } else {
   $height = $width/$ratio_orig;
  }
  // This resamples the image
  $image_p = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
  $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($url);
  imagecopyresampled($image_p, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $width_orig, $height_orig);
  // Output the image
  imagejpeg($image_p, null, 100);
 }
 //works with both POST and GET
 $method = $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'];
 if ($method == 'GET') {
  imageResize($_GET['url'], $_GET['w'], $_GET['h']);
  } elseif ($method == 'POST') {
  imageResize($_POST['url'], $_POST['w'], $_POST['h']);
  }
 // makes the process simpler
 function loadImage($url, $width, $height){
  echo 'image.php?url=', urlencode($url) ,
  '&w=',$width,
  '&h=',$height;
 }
?>

//Above code would be in a file called image.php.
//Images would be displayed like this:
<img src="<?php loadImage('image.jpg', 50, 50) ?>" alt="" />