CodeIgniter IMG – thumbnails

CodeIgniter IMG – thumbnails
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CodeIgniter library to generate high-quality thumbnails

A library is based on excellent * Smarty plugin “Thumb” * created in 2005 by Christoph Erdmann. This version is a little bit different, we are using the 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,
  • a clear structure for generated thumbnails,
  • thumbnails sharpening function,
  • cropping function,
  • fill space function

Usage

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

$this->load->library('img');

In the view you can use a function with this parameters:

echo $this->img->rimg($filename, array('longside' => 745, 'alt' => 'alt text')

Parameters:

  • longside – width of longest side (pixel value),
  • shortside – width of a shorter side
  • crop – cropping (true/false)
  • width – fixed width (with this parameter you need also set height)
  • height – height (with this parameter you need to also set height)
  • sharpen – sharp image after scale
  • nocache – rewrite existing file in the cache

Documentation

Documentation is located at https://github.com/slav123/CodeIgniter-Img/wiki

Installation

Just put img.php file in libraries path.

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