CodeIgniter library to generate high quality thumbnails

Library is based on excellent * Smarty plugin “Thumb” * created in 2005 by Christoph Erdmann. This version is a little different, we are using core from Thumb, and some modification which gives more flexibility to work with it.

Features

• thumbnails are generated “on the fly” no additional actions required,
• cache for generated thumbnails,
• clear structure for generated thumbnails,
• thumbnails sharpening function,
• cropping function,
• fill space function

Usage

You need to upload file img.php into directory application/libraries. In controller, you need to load library:

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