Hi all, since we're talking about it, I wanted to ask if anybody else is missing the thumbnail_tag() helper that used to be part of the sfThumbnail Plugin. I have an old version that clearly contains it, yet the current repository shows it's not there.. What happened to it?
Thanks, Daniel On Sep 30, 6:56 am, david <da...@inspiredthinking.co.uk> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
