Are there any specific tutorials or resources available for creating image thumbnails in PHP?

To create image thumbnails in PHP, you can use the GD library which provides functions for image manipulation. You can resize an image to create a thumbnail by using the `imagecopyresampled()` function to copy and resize a portion of an image. 

// Load the original image
$originalImage = imagecreatefromjpeg('original.jpg');

// Get the dimensions of the original image
$originalWidth = imagesx($originalImage);
$originalHeight = imagesy($originalImage);

// Create a new image for the thumbnail
$thumbnailWidth = 100; // Set the width of the thumbnail
$thumbnailHeight = ($originalHeight / $originalWidth) * $thumbnailWidth;
$thumbnailImage = imagecreatetruecolor($thumbnailWidth, $thumbnailHeight);

// Resize and copy a portion of the original image to the thumbnail image
imagecopyresampled($thumbnailImage, $originalImage, 0, 0, 0, 0, $thumbnailWidth, $thumbnailHeight, $originalWidth, $originalHeight);

// Output the thumbnail image
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
imagejpeg($thumbnailImage);

// Free up memory
imagedestroy($originalImage);
imagedestroy($thumbnailImage);

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