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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:56:22 +0800
From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com>
To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Re: Image processing with Hadoop and PHP
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On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Sheraz Sharif <sheraz@m3b.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to Hadoop and have very little experience with java.  However, I am
> very experienced with PHP.  I've seen one web page where a guy who wrote a
> map-reduce function in PHP, and others in Python.
>
> I would like to receive hundreds, if not thousands of images a day and
> process them into thumbnails or other transformations (rotations, cropping,
> composting).  The distributed part of Hadoop seems perfect for this.  Can I
> use PHP to do the actual image processing?
>
> I've seen one post last month about someone processing TIFF images, but that
> was in Java.

Try hadoop streaming so that you can write mapper/reducer in PHP.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan

>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions.
>
> Cheers!
>
>