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[alik]

Photocrop is a configurable frontend image uploader and resizing/ cropping/ editing tool. It enables users to upload image onto a website, transparently reduces the image's size to a preconfigured limit, and finally allows for online editing of the uploaded image. Photocrop can be accessed by users who are logged into the site's manager.

Full article + download: http://setpro.pl/software/photocrop
Live demo: http://photocrop.setpro.pl/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/photocrop

[sharkbait]

hi alik,

nice, thanks for sharing!

is there a way to configure the thumbnails (size & format)?
...and apparently it is possible to customize the thumbnail/image/link/lightbox output in the frontend, right?

cheers, j

*edit: picture added

[j_p]

Awesome, could be very useful - thanks alik.

[alik]

2 Sharkbait:
Sizes of images/thumbnails are controlled by three parameters -- MAX_SQUARE, MAX_WIDTH, and MAX_HEIGHT -- that you can set in configuration file for Photocrop. Precedence/priority of these parameters is described in the article ("Resizing policy" section). There are two sets of such parameters: IMAGE_MAX_... and THUMB_MAX_... that control images and thumbnails,respectively, within editor (Photocrop). How images/thumbnails are displayed on the actual frontend site -- it's completely up to you. On my demo site I am also using Photocrop's internal thumbnailer/imager for displaying photos on the public frontend.

[bunk58]

Excellent 
I've just uploaded, had it resized then custom cropped a photo of my a castle.
Great work alik.

[mrhaw]

WOW!!!!!! 

[goldsky]

photocrop+maxigallery would be awesome!

[alik]

2 Goldsky
Under consideration.

[alik]

Photocrop + Maxigallery example is working on the demo site at http://dev.setpro.pl/ -- I have built this example with no changes to Photocrop's core code. However, the use of such scenario in multi-gallery environment requires Photocrop's core to be slightly adjusted -- particularly its statically-built configuration. This task is on my todo-list -- new release will smoothly work with many instances of Maxigallery.

[goldsky]

AWESOME!!!

What's the trick?

[alik]

New and improved release: half a step from an image uploader towards a simple graphics processor. Live demo at http://dev.setpro.pl/ has been upgraded to this newest version. Twitter available -- http://twitter.com/photocrop

[dev_cw]

Very coo!!!! 

[goldsky]

PHP error debug
  Error:    preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: PCRE does not support \L, \l, \N, \U, or \u at offset 4   
  Error type/ Nr.:    Warning - 2   
  File:    D:\localhost\modx\assets\photocrop\config.default.inc.php   
  Line:    96   
  Line 96 source:    if (!preg_match('#^' . $configuration['RESOURCE_BASE'] . '#', $configuration['RESOURCE_PATH'])) {

It happens when it's opening the [!Photocrop!] blank page.

[alik]

Thanks for reporting. Yes, it occurs while running site/application in Windows environment. While moving my code to PHP5 OO format I also did some autocalculations on paths with regard to make life easier for a user of my application. But also I silently assumed that all remaining part of the world works in a way similar to mine -- build on Linux, move to production Linux, forget

I improved crucial points in the code and hope that now it will also work within xampp or similar environment -- package with newer date available for downloads.

[kp52]

Great stuff! I've been trying to teach someone to resize before uploading using Irfanview for quite a while now, but it never seems to stick... Maybe I can use some of this on her site.
  KP

[alik]

2goldsky once again + all those using Windows:
I have set up a MODx-driven site within my [unused over recent year] xampp environment and fixed a number of issues which caused parse errors. Now Photocrop available for download under the article (http://setpro.pl/software/photocrop#attachments) should work [more or less] smoothly regardless of the server's OS.

[goldsky]

It works!
Thank you

Anyway,
why don't you create "Make a copy" option?
There is no backup before editing.
And how to change the "User-defined selection"?

[alik]

"User-defined selections" are set in config file -> "assets/photocrop/config.default.inc.php"
There is an array "$this->config['USER_BUTTONS']" which you can customize. I would recommend you to duplicate "config.default.inc.php" to something like "config.myproject.inc.php", next do customization in a duplicate, and finally call application on its hosting page as [!Photocrop? &config=`myproject`!]. This will prevent your custom button settings from being overwritten during further upgrade.

"Make a copy" -- just taken onto my to-consider/to-do list.

[goldsky]

[[PhotocropLink? &idApp=`xyz` &RESOURCE_URL=`assets/galleries/[*id*]/`]]

is not working to the MaxiGallery's image folder.

My example goes to this URL:
http://localhost/modx/index.php?id=19?RESOURCE_URL=assets/galleries/18/

Anyway,
Why do you have to use another document page?
Why not using a stand-alone pop-up window to do the cropping?

[alik]

It looks that you have not performed full upgrade ("PhotocropLink" snippet was not overwritten with the newest version; it is located under assets/photocrop/snippets/*.txt).