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This package has been deprecated as I no longer have any use for it and no longer want to maintain it. You can continue to use the package, but I'd recommend looking at the intervention/image package (which this one relies on) as it has URL manipulation built in. There really isn't any need for this package anymore.

Laravel Image Renderer

A really simple solution to working with images in Laravel. Especially when using the Artisan storage:link command is not an option.

Installation

Like everything Laravel, the Image Renderer is installed using Composer. From the terminal, in your project root, run:

composer require thepublicgood/laravel-image-renderer

Once installed, you can publish the config file with:

php ./artisan vendor:publish --provider=TPG\ImageRenderer\ImageRendererServiceProvider

This will place a renderer.php config file in your project /config directory. Depending on your project, you may want to update some settings in the config file.

Usage

A single route will be registered, the default is to use: /images/{filename} but this can be changed by altering the routes.path key in the config file. You may also wish to alter the storage config options. By default, images are expected to be in /storage/app/images.

Once an image is stored in the correct location, a GET request to http://mysite.test/images/filename.jpg will render the image to the browser. Sub-directories are also supported, so the file /images/gallery/picture.jpg can be rendered by pointing to http://mysite.test/images/gallery/picture.jpg.

Transformers

The Laravel Image Renderer uses the intervention/image page to deal with reading and rendering the image. This means that images can be transformed on the fly. Three transformers are included by default: height, width and square. You can scale an image proportionately by passing the transformer name and value as a URL query:

http://mysite.test/images/filename.jpg?width=300

The intervention/imagecache package is also leveraged to cache the transforms so that they're not rerun on each request. To scale an image by it's height, you can use height=300 or to create a square thumbnail you could use square=400.

Transformers can be combined as well.

Custom Transformers

You can write your own transforms by implementing the TPG\ImageRenderer\Transformers\Contracts\Transformer interface. All transformer classes must implement a handle method which accept two parameters, and be suffixed with Transformer:

namespace App\Transformers;

use TPG\ImageRenderer\Transformers\Contracts\Transformer;

class MyTransformer implements Transformer
{
    public function handle($image, array $values)
    {
        $image->crop($values[0], $values[1]);
        
        return $image;
    }
}

The $image is an instance of the Intervention\ImageCache class and the $values array contains any values passed to the query. In the previous example, two values are expected. Remember to return the $image when the transformer is complete.

Once the transformer class is in place, the renderer needs to be told that the transformer is available. This can be done in two ways. You can either call the addTransformer method on the ImageRenderer facade from your AppServiceProvider:

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function register()
    {
        ImageRenderer::addTransformer(
            'custom',
            App\Transformers\MyTransformer::class
        );
    }
}

Or you can add it to the transformers config key:

return [

    'transformers' => [
        // ...
        'custom' => App\Transformers\MyTransformer::class,
    ]

];

You can now use the transformer from the URL:

http://mysite.test/images/filename.jpg?custom=300,400

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for mre details.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

This package is licensed under the MIT license.