plugin: Image Sizer

Yup, just looked in the source and you’re right, it is for local images only. Dang nabbit.

noregt, glad you solved your problem.

ImpGabe, thanks for your help. Can’t help but wonder how the situation is with this plugin. I did notice some contradictions in the latest version…

Yeah, I’m not sure what happened either. But it seems to me like the documentation just wasn’t updated. Looking back through the forum it also seems like enough people wanted to be able to do cropped rectangular thumbs that Lumis changed the default behavior to do this. If I understand what you want correctly, you want it to size images down to the wdith and height you assign. Is this correct? Wouldn’t this create distortions if clients uploaded a landscape image that was resized to fit portrait dimensions?

I generally use this in conjunction with Multibox or Lightbox and make a cropped thumbnail that users can click on to see the original version (which has been sized appropriately by the EE upload location setting).

Oh and to solve the issue of EE putting the width and height in the settings, if you use MH File upload you can use the Tag Pair for that and just get the file_url to put in image sizer and make it whatever size you want.

Wouldn’t this create distortions if clients uploaded a landscape image that was resized to fit portrait dimensions?

No, it sizes the other side proportionally as you can see in the test page, so that is just fine, but thanks

Isn’t that the same as just defining either the width or the height?

No, if you assign width AND Height, it behaves like most image resizers; if it is a portrait image it will not be higher then the max height. if it is a landscape image, it will not be wider then the set width. This is great if you have a fixed box to display the image in. If you would only have a max width,the height could be a problem with a portrait image.

In this case, I decided to go for auto.

So are you doing something like this:

{exp:imgsizer:size src="{news_image}" auto="100" alt="Image for {title}"}

Or is your image placeholder not equal dimensions?

Sorry about asking so much. I just want to see if I’m missing something that I could possible use someday.

I’m using

{exp:imgsizer:size src={bestand} auto="300"}

Does this not work in the latest version of Image Sizer?

Not with the EE file upload, where height and width attributes are added during file upload (as it should).

Ah, so you are using the good old EE file upload. Is there a reason you’re not using the Mark Hout file extension? http://docs.markhuot.com/ee/extensions/file

This would take care of that issue, plus make it easier for users to upload images.

Well, I try to not use too many extensions and plugins, because I’ve run into trouble with a lot of them during upgrades. Lately I’ve had to dump TinyMCE and Textile to name a few.

But I can give it a try.

I think you’ll find that as far as extensions goes, this one is a staple. This should have been how EE did uploads to begin with.

Let me know if you need to see any code. I’ve used this extension with many image apps, lightboxes, slideshows, etc… Unfortunately it’s another extension that if you want full instructions you have to dig through pages of the forum. But one of the best things about it is the ability to just get the file path from the entry, so you can set your own attributes.

I will say however that the big downfall of this extension is the inability to add captions when doing multiple uploads. The workaround is a pain and involves figuring out a maximum number of image uploads per entry and creating a field for image and a field for caption for each one.