it would be really great if I could simply insert my image variable, like in the example below where I inserted my image as {image_big}... am I hearing that this is not possible?

IE:

(above code does not work)

all I want to do is to produce a smaller version of my images in certain situations (ie., like some sort of “auto thumbnail”)

thx!

ssouci
based on your earlier post the variable {image_big} is outputting

and you are placing this in your template

{exp:imgsizer:size image=”/images/uploads/{image_big}” width=“50” alt=“image”}

so by combining {image_big} with the imgsizer plugin you are creating basically this tag

no that wont work

That’s where ExtractURL-Plus comes in, it extracts just the image.ext from the {image_big} field.

PXLated
yeah i understand that but i don’t think he was using that plug-in.
also to use a plug-in to set the param on a tag you need to use the parse=“inward” param

Related thread

Sorry Lumis, I figured you understood, was directing that more to Ssouci…I should have specified :-(

Parse Inward…Hmmm, didn’t think of that. So used to using phpThumb where that doesn’t come into play. Thanks!

Lumis:

to answer your question, my image variables like this in the database:

EG:

I am uploading my images into the images/uploads directory using EE’s bult-in uploader, and it seems that EE inserts the {filedir_1} variable (to replace the full path data)

thx

ssouci
{filedir_1} could output anything depending on how you have it setup in your upload preferences. i believe it is “URL of Upload Directory” just set that to a relative path instead of a URL
http://www.domain.com/images/uploads/
to
/images/uploads/

but I updated the plug-in to deal with situations like this where someone would want to pass in the full URL. it will also now fetch remote images now and resize them.
give it a try and let me know

lumis I was looking for a plugin like this.

I’ve readed the entire post and I’ve nothing more to say than a big THANK YOU for yor support.

Well I’m having my first trouble with this plugin, and I think it’s because EE is installed inside a folder, not in the root folder.

My EE installation is in the directory /sitio/

So my templates are acceded like this

/sitio/index.php/template_group/template_name

I wrote the full image path instead of taking it from a variable just to be sure that the problem is not with the variables or how I’ve configured my upload dir.

The full image path is /sitio/images/covers/cod_83.jpg, so I wrote

That returns nothing…

But if I use the path without the installation dir (without /sitio):

The plugin returns the cached image URL, obviously without the installation dir:

/images/covers/cache/170x170-cod_83.jpg

So to fix that, I add the installation dir manually:

So the plugin returns:

/sitio/images/covers/cache/170x170-cod_83.jpg

It looks like I’ve solved the problem, but there is another: The image cache file doesn’t exist.

There is no /cache folder inside my /covers folder.

Maybe is because the plugin is trying to write it in /images/coves instead of /sitio/images/covers.

The weird thing is that it seems like the plugin is adding the /sitio folder to the image path, because it can find it and read it well, but it’s not able to write it to the correct destination folder.

Any Help?

Has this plugin been updated so that height is the determining factor in the resize? I have a layout where I really need to restrict by height - but everywhere else on the site I need to restrict by width, which this apparently does. I’d hate to have to install this for everything but that one page, where I’d have to install phpThumb just to restrict by height.

Thanks for working on a simple(r) alternative to phpThumb, which is, in many case, overkill.

Hi there - Looks like a great plugin!

We’re currently using PhpThumb to resize images, and it’s killing our server when we get too much traffic.  Is this plugin more efficient than PhpThumb?

Thanks again!

updated v1.5

* now uses Expression Engines Image Library instead of just the GD library so any image processor setup in the EE control panel will work.
* resizing can be done by ether width or height
* images keep there default format instead of all being converted to jpg
* mime type check makes sure mime types match ok types
* combined the tag pair into the default tag so it can be a tag pair or a single depending on how you want the output
* the pathing to the image location is now based on server vars and not relative paths
* cache directory is created automatically if it is not on the server

src= (required) the path from “webroot” to the image or the URL to the image
  /images/news/moped.jpg or http://www.lumis.com/images/news/moped.jpg

width= the width you wish the image to resized to. the height is resized proportionately
    or
height= the height you wish the image to resized to. the width is resized proportionately
    note: if you use width and height width will take president

justcheck= (Single Tag only) if set to yes the tag will return a 1 if the image exists
justurl= (Single Tag only) if set to yes the tag will only return the path to the image
alt= (Single Tag only) the alt tag of the image
id= (Single Tag only) the id of the image

Single Tag:

Tag Pair:

Wow Lumis, you’ve been busy!!! Will be trying it out as soon as I get a break.

Man somebody was busy

I still wonder if you could use this on a very busy site, if there are no performance issues.

I would imagine it would have the same issue as phpThumb if it has to check for a cache file on every page load. It would probably have to in case you’ve changed a parameter.

well it would depend on what your idea of busy is? but i use it here with no problems http://wkrg.com/ every article we do has multipul different image sizes. and i cant give out exact numbers but it handels well over a million page views a month. and at peek times over 6000 users on the site at one time.

I have also built Gallery sections using this plug-in you can view here   http://wkrg.com/weather_gallery/

I have a companion plug-in im working on to display images in the edit list and resizing / cropping tab in the publish page

ohh and the check cache feature is a simple if cache file exists then dont do any processing and just return the url

PXLated - 31 October 2007 10:12 PM

I would imagine it would have the same issue as phpThumb if it has to check for a cache file on every page load. It would probably have to in case you’ve changed a parameter.

Does that really have performance issues?

I’ll try the new version in a website, It has had about 18000 template hits in the last two weeks. And I have the template cache activated.

Will the plugin slow down the website?
What if I just use the justurl parameter (obviously after the image has been resized and cached)?
Does EE have any method to save the plugin’s output in the cache? Or any way to notice the plugin in case EE is using a cached version of a template?

Sorry for my english

lumis, thank you again for the great support you are givin to this plugin!

With phpThumb it’s been reported by a couple as slowing down their site but only where there are tons of images on each page so it’s making the cache call many times over. And the speed comparison is in relation to using standard static thumbs rather than dynamic. I haven’t heard any problems for normal sites with a small number of images per page.