None of the stuff I've seen for resizing transparent GIFs works consistently and yields a good image. The hack I thought of is silly, but it works okay -- convert GIF to PNG. This worked for me.
$g_iw is new image width
$g_ih is new image height
$img_src=imagecreatefromgif($g_srcfile);
$img_dst=imagecreatetruecolor($g_iw,$g_ih);
//preserve alpha
imagecolortransparent($img_dst, imagecolorallocate($img_dst, 0, 0, 0));
imagealphablending($img_dst, false);
imagesavealpha($img_dst, true);
imagecopyresampled($img_dst, $img_src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $g_iw, $g_ih, $g_is[0], $g_is[1]);
imagepng($img_dst, $g_dstfile);
imagedestroy($img_dst);
