Question

I am looking to accomplish this in CodeIgniter specifically.

The PHP App I am coding allows a user to upload either a jpg or an animated gif image. On the next step I want to allow the user to use jCrop to crop a few different size thumbnails. This would require me to convert a new copy of the animated gif to a jpg. My code works fine with uploaded jpg images, but creates a broken image for gif files. Is what I am trying to do possible?

My Code:

                // Create image to crop
            $config['image_library'] = 'ImageMagick';
            $config['library_path'] = '/usr/bin';
            $config['source_image'] = $this->config->item('upload_dir_path') . $file_path . 'original.' . $file_ext;
            chmod($config['source_image'], 0777);
            $config['new_image'] = $this->config->item('upload_dir_path') . $file_path . 'crop-me.jpg';
            $this->image_lib->initialize($config); 
            $this->image_lib->resize();

Answer 1

For those interested in my solution, I simply used the built in GD PHP functions. I have little experience dealing with gif files so I was expecting this to be difficult. The fact of the matter is the CodeIgniter Image_lib and extended library (Which I never got to work properly) is overkill for this.

Here is what I used:

$image = imagecreatefromgif($path_to_gif_image);
imagejpeg($image, $output_path_with_jpg_extension);

Very easy and worked perfectly for what I needed.