Smart Image Processor Tutorials - Make thumbnails and save filenames in database.

How do you make thumbnails and save the filenames in your database.

With the Smart Image Processor Extension you can make thumbnails of your uploaded images.
This tutorial will show you how to upload the images with Pure PHP Upload, make Thumbnails with Smart Image Processor and insert the filenames of the images into a database.

What will it look like when you are using it?

1. The user will request a page from the server that will enable him/her to upload an image.

2. The user selects the image from his/her computer and submits it.

3. The page is uploaded to the server where the thumbnail is created , and put into the folder you specified.

4. The filename is inserted into the database.

Page processing flow: 1. Images are saved in a folder 2. Images are resized 3. Images are saved with their original name, but end with .jpg 4. Thumbnails are created with the original name of the image and a suffix. 5. Filenames are saved in the database.

 

How to do it

•  Open page

  Open your php file where you need to apply Pure PHP Upload Server Behavior and Resize Images.

•  First create a recordset

1. From the Bindings panel, choose Recordset and name it Recordset1.



2. Select the datasource connection.
3. In the dropdown select the Table.
4. In Columns select the fields.
5. Click OK.
6. Press CTRL-S to save your file.

•  Apply Insert Record Behavior

Before using Pure PHP Upload we need to add the Insert Record Behavior.
Create a form on your page first.

1. From the Server Behaviors panel, choose the Insert Record Behavior.
2. Select the Connection and the Table the file names of the images need to be saved into.
3. In After Inserting, Go To: browse to the file that you should be redirected to.
4. Select the form where the values are coming from.
5. The Form Elements are nicely lined up.
6. When you are finished click Ok.
7. Press CTRL-S to save your file.

•  Now apply the Pure PHP Upload 2.1+ behavior

  Make sure you have a form with a File Upload Field and a Submit button.
  
  
  
  1. From the Server Behaviors panel select DMXzone - Pure PHP Upload 2.1+.
  2. Browse to the folder where the images will need to be uploaded to.
  3. If you check the option for Prefix With Full Path, you do not need to mention the folder when you are trying to display the thumbnail.
  4 . Leave Go To After Uploading empty, since we are not done after this.
  5. Click CTRL-S to save the file.
  
  

•  Find the Smart Image Processor behavior panel

  You will find the Smart Image Processor panel under Server Behaviors. Click on the + sign, DMXzone, Smart Image Processor.
  
  

•  Open the Smart Image Processor panel

This will Open the Smart Image Processor Panel.



In Use Server Component select the server component that is installed on the server that you are using.

Check the "Make Thumbnails" option and enter Width & Height of the required thumbnails.
The image will adjust to that size. You can choose if you would like to keep the aspect ratio. You only need to fill in the width or height proportions.

The image will be resaved as a jpeg. You can adjust the quality of the image. Since this will be a thumbnail you can make the quality lower. 70 is a normal quality for thumbnails.

Create a Suffix for your thumbnail images, so your thumbnail will be saved with the regular image. All thumbnail filenames will end with this suffix. If you change the default suffix, make sure you remember what suffix you did use when you want to display the thumbnail on your page.

In After resize, Go To leave it empty.

NOTE: You can combine the Resize Uploaded Images and Make Thumbnails so those excute at the same time by checking both options. This will result into that original images are being resized and thumbnails are created.

•  Click ok

To apply the Smart Image Processor behavior click OK.
A message box appears to tell you that the file called incResize.php has been copied to your site in the ScriptLibrary folder. Click OK.

•  Save the file in your site

 You will need to save the file in your site. Now you are ready to go!