Question

I’m designing a website and I need to:

• Upload the image
• Validate that it’s an image (and not, oh I don’t know…. a virus 🙂 )
• Resize the Image
• convert to jpg

Essentially basic image upload

Instead of writing my own I’m trying to find a PHP class that let’s me do all this, because as Jeff Atwood said, "never design what you can steal"

So far, Ive found:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4997127/php-class-to-upload-image-from-url-and-resize-it (I know it looks like a duplicate, but its not because it is asking for a URL fetcher)
• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/image-resizing-made-easy-with-php/
• http://www.verot.net/php_class_upload.htm
• http://blog.freelancer-id.com/index.php/2010/03/21/php-image-crop-resize-upload
• http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2181-PHP-Process-files-and-images-uploaded-via-a-form.html
• https://github.com/dimo414/imgupload

Does anyone have any experience with these classes? Can you recommend an outstanding image upload class?

Answer 1

I tend to use a framework of one description or another, which cover’s the file upload part. However, do have a recommendation for the cropping bit:

Imagine – https://github.com/avalanche123/Imagine

And if you want to make the uploader a tiny bit better than just an input type=file, try:

https://github.com/valums/file-uploader