There's a couple of jQuery libs for the client side (browser) and this one is pretty decent: http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/jquery-image-crop-plugin-jcrop/
There's a couple of articles about how to use it with PHP: 1) http://www.webmotionuk.co.uk/php-jquery-image-upload-and-crop-v11/ 2) http://www.webmotionuk.co.uk/php-jquery-image-upload-and-crop/ On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:48:11 +0200, Tom Boutell <t...@punkave.com> wrote: > > The original poster was looking for a tool to visually decide what > part of the image you want to crop, primarily. At least I'm pretty > sure that's what they wanted. > > As far as back ends that do the actual image rendering, gd-based and > imagemagick-based PHP code are pretty much equally effective as far as > simple image cropping goes. They are both written in C. gd's > imagecreate(), imagecreatetruecolor(), etc. functions are wrappers for > the gd functions. There is no truly "PHP based crop/resize" image > rendering code that I'm aware of - that would be INCREDIBLY slow. (: > > netpbm (via pkImageConverter) is a good choice if you are concerned > about the PHP memory limit, as it never loads an entire image into > memory; simple image conversion, cropping and scaling don't really > require that, so it's a waste of memory to use gd or imagemagick for > those things. > > As of a week or two ago you can now use pkImageConverter with gd if > you don't have netpbm on a particular box (check out the trunk to get > this code). A good compromise if you want to develop on Windows and > release on Linux. > > On Sep 29, 10:53 pm, Casey <casey.cam...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The php imagemagick library is very effective and its a lot faster >> than php based crop/resize because it is written c. You might not >> have imagemagick installed, so check with php -i (php -i | grep >> imagick). If you see imagick, its installed. There is good >> documentation at the php.net site. I have always found imagemagick to >> be the fastest and most flexible php extension to manipulate images. >> >> http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.imagick.php >> >> On Sep 29, 7:26 pm, Sid Bachtiar <sid.bacht...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Sorry, didn't realize he asked for all in one cropping rather than a >> > library to crop/resize images. eCrop is what I use too. >> >> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Jake Barnes <lkrub...@geocities.com> >> wrote: >> >> > > On Sep 29, 8:36 pm, Sid Bachtiar <sid.bacht...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> Linux box only (using netpbm, >> fast):http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/pkImageConverterPlugin >> >> > >> Linux and Windows (using GD, >> slower):http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfThumbnailPlugin >> >> > > sfThumbnail facillitates cropping? I did not know that. Somehow I >> read >> > > through the docs on sfThumbnail and missed that. I use sfThumbnail >> to >> > > resize my images, but I didn't realize it could crop. >> >> > > I should say, I just tried the eCrop plugin and it works great. Very >> > > simple to use, very straightforward. >> >> > >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM, lawrence <lkrub...@geocities.com> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > A client has asked me to build an image gallery. I'm curious >> what code >> > >> > or plugins Symfony developers typically use for this (assuming >> there >> > >> > is any typical usage). >> >> > >> > Have developers here used the eCropPlugin, and do you have an >> opinion >> > >> > about it? >> >> > >> >http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/eCropPlugin/prototype >> >> > >> -- >> > >> Blue Horn Ltd - System Developmenthttp://bluehorn.co.nz >> >> > -- >> > Blue Horn Ltd - System Developmenthttp://bluehorn.co.nz > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
