AvalancheImagineBundle

This bundle provides easy image manipulation support for Symfony2. For example, with this bundle, the following is possible:

<img src="{{ '/relative/path/to/image.jpg' | apply_filter('thumbnail') }}" />

This will perform the transformation called thumbnail, which you can define to do a number of different things, such as resizing, cropping, drawing, masking, etc.

This bundle integrates the standalone PHP "Imagine library".

Installation

To install this bundle, you'll need both the Imagine library and this bundle. Installation depends on how your project is setup:

Step 1: Installation using the bin/vendors.php method

If you're using the bin/vendors.php method to manage your vendor libraries, add the following entries to the deps in the root of your project file:

[Imagine]
    git=http://github.com/avalanche123/Imagine.git
    target=imagine

[AvalancheImagineBundle]
    git=http://github.com/avalanche123/AvalancheImagineBundle.git
    target=bundles/Avalanche/Bundle/ImagineBundle

NOTE: This location and syntax of the deps file changed after BETA4. If you're using an older version of the deps system, you may need to swap the order of the items in the deps file.

Next, update your vendors by running:

$ ./bin/vendors

Great! Now skip down to Step 2.

Step 1 (alternative): Installation with submodules

If you're managing your vendor libraries with submodules, first create the vendor/bundles/Avalanche/Bundle directory:

$ mkdir -pv vendor/bundles/Avalanche/Bundle

Next, add the two necessary submodules:

$ git submodule add git://github.com/avalanche123/Imagine.git vendor/imagine
$ git submodule add git://github.com/avalanche123/AvalancheImagineBundle.git vendor/bundles/Avalanche/Bundle/ImagineBundle

Step2: Configure the autoloader

Add the following entries to your autoloader:

<?php
// app/autoload.php

$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
    // ...

    'Imagine'          => __DIR__.'/../vendor/imagine/lib',
    'Avalanche'        => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles',
));

Step3: Enable the bundle

Finally, enable the bundle in the kernel:

<?php
// app/AppKernel.php

public function registerBundles()
{
    $bundles = array(
        // ...

        new Avalanche\Bundle\ImagineBundle\AvalancheImagineBundle(),
    );
}

Step4: Register the bundle's routes

Finally, add the following to your routing file:

# app/config/routing.yml

_imagine:
    resource: .
    type:     imagine

Congratulations! You're ready to rock your images!

Basic Usage

This bundle works by configuring a set of filters and then applying those filters to images inside a template. So, start by creating some sort of filter that you need to apply somewhere in your application. For example, suppose you want to thumbnail an image to a size of 120x90 pixels:

# app/config/config.yml

avalanche_imagine:
    filters:
        my_thumb:
            type:    thumbnail
            options: { size: [120, 90], mode: outbound }

You've now defined a filter called my_thumb that performs a thumbnail transformation. We'll learn more about available transformations later, but for now, this new filter can be used immediately in a template:

<img src="{{ '/relative/path/to/image.jpg' | apply_filter('my_thumb') }}" />

Or if you're using PHP templates:

<img src="<?php $this['imagine']->filter('/relative/path/to/image.jpg', 'my_thumb') ?>" />

Behind the scenes, the bundle applies the filter(s) to the image on the first request and then caches the image to a similar path. On the next request, the cached image would be served directly from the file system.

In this example, the final rendered path would be something like /media/cache/my_thumb/relative/path/to/image.jpg. This is where Imagine would save the filtered image file.

Configuration

The default configuration for the bundle looks like this:

avalanche_imagine:
    web_root:     %kernel.root_dir%/../web
    cache_prefix: media/cache
    driver:       gd
    filters:      []

There are several configuration options available:

• web_root - must be the absolute path to you application's web root. This is used to determine where to put generated image files, so that apache will pick them up before handing the request to Symfony2 next time they are requested.

  default: %kernel.root_dir%/../web

• cache_prefix - this is also used in the path for image generation, so as to not clutter your web root with cached images. For example by default, the images would be written to the web/media/cache/ directory.

  default: media/cache

• driver - one of the three drivers: gd, imagick, gmagick

  default: gd

• filters - specify the filters that you want to define and use

Each filter that you specify have the following options:

• type - determine the type of filter to be used, refer to Filters section for more information
• options - options that should be passed to the specific filter type
• path - override the global cache_prefix and replace it with this path

Built-in Filters

Currently, this bundles comes with just one built-in filter: thumbnail.

The thumbnail filter

The thumbnail filter, as the name implies, performs a thumbnail transformation on your image. Configuration looks like this:

filters:
    my_thumb:
        type:    thumbnail
        options: { size: [120, 90], mode: outbound }

The mode can be either outbound or inset.

Load your Custom Filters

The ImagineBundle allows you to load your own custom filter classes. The only requirement is that each filter loader implement the following interface:

Avalanche\Bundle\ImagineBundle\Imagine\Filter\Loader\LoaderInterface

To tell the bundle about your new filter loader, register it in the service container and apply the following tag to it (example here in XML):

<tag name="imagine.filter.loader" filter="my_custom_filter" />

For more information on the service container, see the Symfony2 Service Container documentation.

You can now reference and use your custom filter when defining filters you'd like to apply in your configuration:

filters:
    my_special_filter:
        type:    my_custom_filter
        options: { }

For an example of a filter loader implementation, refer to Avalanche\Bundle\ImagineBundle\Imagine\Filter\Loader\ThumbnailFilterLoader.