Friday, December 2, 2011

Re: Best image resize and crop helper



On Friday, 2 December 2011 10:10:33 UTC+1, Alex Bovey wrote:
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Miles J <milesw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This should be done when the image is uploaded.

Thanks for the responses all.

Miles - I'm interested to know your rationale for that approach, which
I always used to follow, but find a helper so much more convenient
when you want to make a minor adjustment to the image size.


That's quite a common way of thinking about upload processing.

Why would you run logic each time you want to point at an image - instead of once when you upload it such that your helper/image logic is only "the $size thumbnail for that file is here: "$domain/$path.$size.$ext"?

What happens when you find you need a different size for whatever
reason?  Do you simply have a function that lets you regenerate all
images to a certain size, presuming you keep the originally uploaded
image?


Personally, I would always maintain a pristine, or largest-used-size image/file to be able to regenerate versions at any time.

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