Re: [cgiapp] RFC: Thumbnail Image Server

["Cees Hek" <suppressed>]

On 11/30/06, Jesse Erlbaum <suppressed> wrote:
> Hi All --
>
> I'm working on a CGI-App based module for CPAN, and I'm looking for
> feedback in three areas:
>
>   1. Is there anything similar?

Hey Jesse,

I wrote a plugin for Template Toolkit last year sometime that does
something similar.  Not what you are looking for, but definately in
the same vein.  It works like this:

[% USE image = Image::Thumbnail(root='/var/www' name='/images/foo.gif'
width=100) %]
[% image.tag %]

The output would be something like this:

<img src="/images/foo.gif" width="100" height="120" />

or with more control:

<img src="[% image.name %]" width="[% image.width %]" height="[%
image.height %]" />

Which outputs the exact same thing.

Thumbnails are generated on the first request, and then saved in a
cache keyed by the parameters that were passed in.

What I like about this system is that it gives the power back to the
designers (which is exactly what you are trying to do with the image
server).

>   2. Is this useful / what features would make it more useful to you?

Definately

>   3. What should it be called?

That is always the most dificult part ;)


If anyone is interested, my mailing list post regarding this is here:

http://www.template-toolkit.org/pipermail/templates/2005-August/007765.html

And the code can be found here:

http://cees.crtconsulting.ca/perl/modules/Template-Plugin-Image-Thumbnail-0.01/
http://cees.crtconsulting.ca/perl/modules/Template-Plugin-Image-Thumbnail-0.01.tar.gz

I never did upload it to CPAN, but I still use it in several big
projects.  I should probably throw it up there since someone might
find it useful.

Cheers,

Cees

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