1. Customize Magento’s Image Resize Functionality
Need to remove the white border around your images? Don't want everything to be square? Here is how to customize the ->resize functionality in Magento.Here is what the default image resize code looks like:
The problem is this will always give you a 350 x 350 pixel square. If your image is rectangular, you will get a white frame around it to make it square. The resize() command can be quickly and easily customized to work better with rectangular images.
->constrainOnly(true) This will not resize an image that is smaller than the dimensions inside the resize() part.
->keepAspectRatio(true) This will not distort the height/width of the image.
->keepFrame(false) This will not put a white frame around your image.
Here is what your image code would look like with all these set:
<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image')->constrainOnly(true)->keepAspectRatio(true)->keepFrame(false)->resize(350, null) ?>
This would resize your images to a max 350 width and constrain the height. If your image is taller than it is wide, you will end up with a nicely resized vertical image.
Here are the various places that images are used:
/app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/catalog/product/view/media.phtml (displays the image on your product view page)
/app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/catalog/product/list.phtml (displays the image on category view)
This has helped us out many times. Let us know in the comments if you use it!
from: http://www.magthemes.com/magento-blog/customize-magentos-image-resize-functionality/
2. Magento: Resize Image
You can resize image with fixed height and variable width. Or, you can resize with fixed width and variable height. Following code shows how you do it in Magento.
Fixed width of 600px
<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image') ->constrainOnly(TRUE) ->keepAspectRatio(TRUE) ->keepFrame(FALSE) ->resize(600,null) ?>
Fixed height of 600px
<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image') ->constrainOnly(TRUE) ->keepAspectRatio(TRUE) ->keepFrame(FALSE) ->resize(null,600) ?>
The following code will resize image proportionally and not let the image be greater than height and width specified.
<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image') ->constrainOnly(TRUE) ->keepAspectRatio(TRUE) ->keepFrame(FALSE) ->resize(400,400) ?>
Description of the functions used above:-
constrainOnly(bool $flag)
Guarantee, that image picture will not be bigger, than it was. Applicable before calling resize() It is false by default
keepAspectRatio(bool $flag)
Guarantee, that image picture width/height will not be distorted. Applicable before calling resize() It is true by default.
keepFrame(bool $flag)
Guarantee, that image will have dimensions, set in $width/$height. Applicable before calling resize() Not applicable, if keepAspectRatio(false).
You can resize image with Varien_Image class as well. This is most suitable when you are resizing image that is not related with catalog product.
// actual path of image $imageUrl = Mage::getBaseDir('media').DS."myimage".DS.$post->getThumbnail(); // path of the resized image to be saved // here, the resized image is saved in media/resized folder $imageResized = Mage::getBaseDir('media').DS."myimage".DS."resized".DS.$post->getThumbnail(); // resize image only if the image file exists and the resized image file doesn't exist // the image is resized proportionally with the width/height 135px if (!file_exists($imageResized)&&file_exists($_imageUrl)) : $imageObj = new Varien_Image($_imageUrl); $imageObj->constrainOnly(TRUE); $imageObj->keepAspectRatio(TRUE); $imageObj->keepFrame(FALSE); $imageObj->resize(135, 135); $imageObj->save($imageResized); endif;
You can use the resized image now as:
<img src="<?php echo Mage::getBaseUrl('media')."myimage/resized/".$post->getThumbnail() ?>" />
Another Scenario
Suppose, you have an image link. Now, you want to resize it. The image might be from any place. In this example, I am supposing the image link to be like http://localhost/magento/media/catalog/category/test_image.jpg
Now, I have to resize it. To do so, I will create a directory called resized inside media/catalog/category . And, I will save the resized file into the newly created resized directory.
// my sample image $imageUrl = "http://localhost/magento/media/catalog/category/test_image.jpg"; // create folder if(!file_exists("./media/catalog/category/resized")) mkdir("./media/catalog/category/resized",0777); // get image name $imageName = substr(strrchr($imageUrl,"/"),1); // resized image path (media/catalog/category/resized/IMAGE_NAME) $imageResized = Mage::getBaseDir('media').DS."catalog".DS."category".DS."resized".DS.$imageName; // changing image url into direct path $dirImg = Mage::getBaseDir().str_replace("/",DS,strstr($imageUrl,'/media')); // if resized image doesn't exist, save the resized image to the resized directory if (!file_exists($imageResized)&&file_exists($dirImg)) : $imageObj = new Varien_Image($dirImg); $imageObj->constrainOnly(TRUE); $imageObj->keepAspectRatio(TRUE); $imageObj->keepFrame(FALSE); $imageObj->resize(120, 120); $imageObj->save($imageResized); endif; $newImageUrl = Mage::getBaseUrl('media')."catalog/category/resized/".$imageName;
Displaying newly created resized image.
<img src="<?php echo Mage::getBaseUrl('media')."catalog/category/resized/".$newImageUrl ?>" />
You can check other function for Varien_Image at
http://docs.magentocommerce.com/Varien/elementindex_Varien_Image.html
from: http://blog.chapagain.com.np/magento-resize-image/