I stopped using sfThumbnailPlugin because it's inefficient - if you
want three sizes, you have to load the original three times - and it
has inconsistent features between its backends and etc. Also actually
loading originals into memory is very inefficient if you're just
creating scaled versions. You can do that on a row by row basis. So we
wound up writing a simple wrapper around the netpbm utilities.

So I suggest you try pkImageConverterPlugin, which is being maintained
and is a lot simpler with the potential to convert huge images without
actually allocating memory for them. It does require that your host
have the netpbm utilities, which your LAMP host should be willing to
install if they're not awful, and it isn't Windows-friendly. Also it
won't work if your hosting is lame... ahem... if your hosting is in
PHP "safe mode" and you can't call system().

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:07 AM, David at Artefactual
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think the problem is that the plugin just isn't being maintained -
> this patch was submitted more than a year ago and it is still marked
> "unreviewed":
> http://trac.symfony-project.org/ticket/2691
>
> David
>
> On Mar 16, 11:24 pm, Sid Bachtiar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I don't see why sfThumbnailPlugin is only available for Symfony 1.0. I
>> just tried it with Symfony 1.2 and it works well.
>>
>> It's just more convenient to be able to install it through PEAR.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sid
>> --
>> Blue Horn Ltd - System Developmenthttp://bluehorn.co.nz
> >
>



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Tom Boutell

www.punkave.com
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