Question

I am trying to create two thumbnails of an image uploaded by user. I repeated the code twice with a little change in configuration for second thumbnail but I get only the first thumbnail created and the second one does is not created. Here is the code:

//First Thumbnail
$conf['image_library'] = 'gd2';
$conf['source_image']   = "images/photos/123.jpg";
$conf['create_thumb'] = TRUE;
$conf['thumb_marker'] = "_1";
$conf['maintain_ratio'] = true;
$conf['width']   = 150;
$conf['height']  = 150;
$this->load->library('image_lib', $conf); 
$this->image_lib->resize();

//Second smaller Thumbnail
$conf2['image_library'] = 'gd2';
$conf2['source_image']  = "images/photos/123.jpg";
$conf2['create_thumb'] = TRUE;
$conf2['thumb_marker'] = "_2";
$conf2['maintain_ratio'] = true;
$conf2['width']  = 50;
$conf2['height']     = 50;
$this->load->library('image_lib', $conf2); 
$this->image_lib->resize();

For some reason the second part never works at all and the first part works well alone as well as with the second part. I think I should not load the library twice in same place. What can I do to fix this issue?

Answer 1

you need to clear the library in between, use this:

$this->image_lib->clear();

and if clearing and reloading doesn’t work, you can try just replacing the second library load with the initialize function which for some reason isn’t referred to in the ci_documentation:

$this->image_lib->clear();
$this->image_lib->initialize($conf2);