Super charge the Image Sizer

Hi,

I have an idea how to make the great Image Sizer plugin even greater. I wish I could do it myself - but I can’t 😉

What if the plugin, or another plugin in cooperation with this one could parse existing img tags and replace them with ones that come out of the plugin (after a new thumbnail has been created):

So if an entry has a tag like this:

/images/someimage.png

We could use the new plugin somehow like this:

{exp:weblog:entries.....}
{exp:superimgsizer field="{entry_width_image_tag}"}
{sized}
{/exp:superimgsizer}
{exp:weblog:entries}

The plugin would:

• parse the {entry_width_image_tag} weblog field
• find the img tags in it
• iterate through them and for each one…
• parse it into key/value pairs
• create a new thumbnail with the width/height values from the tag (or possibly override values)
• build a new img tag that uses the attributes from the old tag (or maybe not)
• replace the old tag with the new one
• spit out the entry

And we end up with the contents of the field with image tags like this:

/images/cache/someimage_350x230.png

But then the question comes. How would the plugin know if it has already done it?

I think something like this could help when there is a lot of dirty image tags in weblog entries and we want to “fix” them.

Am I maybe trying to overengineer something that can easily be done in a simple way?

Best, Sammi