A small CakePHP plugin for resizing and cropping of images. Includes a Helper and Component.

The Helper and/or Component gives you the ability to leave your original images in tact and resize/crop them for View only.

The master branch has the following requirements:

• CakePHP 2.2.0 or greater.
• PHP 5.3.0 or greater.

• Clone/Copy the files in this directory into app/Plugin/ImageCropResize
• Ensure the plugin is loaded in app/Config/bootstrap.php by calling CakePlugin::load('ImageCropResize');
• Include the component in your AppController.php:
  • public $components = array('ImageCropResize.Image');
• Or include the helper in your AppController.php:
  • public $helpers = array('ImageCropResize.Image');

Both the Helper and Component have resize method that can be used as follow:

$options = array(
	'width'				=> null,	//Width of the new Image, Default is Original Width
	'height'			=> null,	//Height of the new Image, Default is Original Height
	'aspect'			=> true,	//Keep aspect ratio
	'crop'				=> false,	//Crop the Image
	'cropvars'			=> array(), //How to crop the image, array($startx, $starty, $endx, $endy);
	'autocrop'			=> false,	//Auto crop the image, calculate the crop according to the size and crop from the middle
	'htmlAttributes'	=> array(),	//Html attributes for the image tag
	'quality'			=> 90,		//Quality of the image
	'urlOnly'			=> false	//Return only the URL or return the Image tag
);

echo $this->Image->resize($imagePath, $options);

The resized image will be cached inside the webroot/img/cache directory. So we only have cached images inside or webroot and leave the originals outside the webroot.