In CakePHP, whats the best Image Upload / Resizing component you've used?
Im looking for somthing that can belong to many many models and, hopfully, has all the resizing functionality built in too.
Wondering if there's any good suggestions out there, I don't want to pick the wrong one.
Or is it just worth building my own?
Answer
I wrote a pretty sweet image upload component a few years ago for Cake 1. I don't have a clue where the code is these days, but my friend Koa did a write up on it a while back:
http://labs.iamkoa.net/2007/10/23/image-upload-component-cakephp/
http://labs.iamkoa.net/2007/11/06/multiple-image-uploads-into-single-mysql-table-cakephp/
Might be something you can hack. It handles uploads, resizing (resize, crop, resize then crop, max, mix) and if I remember correctly, it might even do filters (flipping, inverse, greyscale).
I also ported the code to Zend framework (and PEAR file naming) for my new content management framework. It's all contained and much better now (does all the things I mentioned above and is pretty well documented). You can download that here (check out the ImageManipulator class. I think the FileUploader class has a dependency on my String utils class which you could easily remove if you want to use that.
Otherwise, I say roll your own. The component architecture in Cake was confusing to me at first so it could be a good learning XP if you don't know it yet. If you do, you can just grab someones uploader and convert it into a component for your Cake application.