On Friday, 2 December 2011 10:10:33 UTC+1, Alex Bovey wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Miles J <[email protected]> wrote: > > This should be done when the image is uploaded. > > Thanks for the responses all. > > Miles - I'm interested to know your rationale for that approach, which > I always used to follow, but find a helper so much more convenient > when you want to make a minor adjustment to the image size. >
That's quite a common way of thinking about upload processing. Why would you run logic each time you want to point at an image - instead of once when you upload it such that your helper/image logic is only "the $size thumbnail for that file is here: "$domain/$path.$size.$ext"? What happens when you find you need a different size for whatever > reason? Do you simply have a function that lets you regenerate all > images to a certain size, presuming you keep the originally uploaded > image? > Personally, I would always maintain a pristine, or largest-used-size image/file to be able to regenerate versions at any time. AD > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
