10
Jun
2009

PHP Thumb 3.0 Released

The long-awaited release is finally here!
PHP Thumb - An image manipulation library for PHP

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally managed to get the next release of my PHP Thumbnailer library completed! I’m also happy to announce that the project finally has its own website: http://phpthumb.gxdlabs.com. I’ve put a lot of work into bringing the class up to date, making it extensible, and most of all, making sure its well documented! I’ve also tried to make it easier to get help through either bug reports or forums dedicated to the project itself.

Rather than go into any detail, I want to encourage you to check out the project’s new site. Feel free, however, to share any thoughts you have in the comments for this post :)

Posted by Ian on June 10, 2009 at 11:23 am
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  • kornesh
    Jun 10 '09 at 11:40 pm

    Hi Bro,
    Nice work very impressive….especially the reflection effect….i love it…
    very useful classes….

    Thank you,

    Kornesh


  • Jason
    Jul 19 '09 at 11:11 pm

    Hi,

    From PHPDevShell V2.7.0 your thumbnail class is build into the core of PHPDevShell providing even a GUI to change thumbnail setting. PHPDevShell 2.8.0 will use V3 of this excellent class.

    Regards


  • nima
    Jul 20 '09 at 11:39 pm

    are you going to do a plugin for wordpress with this function ?


  • tronics
    Aug 20 '09 at 3:06 am

    This library is great! Have used in a few projects and it is very fast and well layed out.

    Please take when someone finds the time take a quick look on the transparency issue ;)
    http://phpthumb.gxdlabs.com/forums/topic/preserve-transparency-in-png-and-gif?replies=1#post-85


  • jsonx
    Sep 9 '09 at 10:02 am

    Thanks it works good.


  • rico
    Sep 23 '09 at 4:51 am

    hi,
    very good classe ! but how make an thumbnail with final resizing with adding select background color for differents sizing image with original ratio preserved (no cropped).
    ex: original img = 600px X 222 px
    out is 200px X 200px but with not cropped, the difference is background color apport, original ratio is preserved.

    thx


  • Ian Huet
    Sep 29 '09 at 7:11 am

    I have been using this library for a while and have found it to be brilliant. So good that we took the time to turn it into a wordpress plug-in, which can be found here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/choicecuts-image-juggler/. Check out http://www.workwithchoicecuts.com for an article on how to use it :-)

    All credit goes to Ian for putting together this really handy library!

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