Crop Image to Square dimension in CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter have a powerful image manipulation class. In this article we are going to discuss about How to use this class and Crop image to a square dimension in CodeIgniter (CI). Here we are going to discuss How to generate the square shape thumbnail from the uploaded image in CodeIgniter (CI).

It will crop the image in the server not by URL. If you have a dynamic variable to locate an image on the server, you can create function to check the image format (png, jpg, gif...etc..) and then use PHP GD function (imagecreatefromjpeg or imagecreatefrompng or imagecreatefromgif) to get the image width and height, in this code below it assume the image only in .jpg format.

If you want to crop image from the uploaded file by the user it will make it easier, cause when you use CodeIgniter file uploading class there's a built in property to get uploaded image width and image height automatically after the image was uploaded.

Use the below code to crop the image in CodeIgniter (CI)

public function crop()
{
    $img_path = 'uploads\capsamples.jpg';
    $img_thumb = 'uploads\capsamples_thumb.jpg';

    $config['image_library'] = 'gd2';
    $config['source_image'] = $img_path;
    $config['create_thumb'] = TRUE;
    $config['maintain_ratio'] = FALSE;

    $img = imagecreatefromjpeg($img_path);
    $_width = imagesx($img);
    $_height = imagesy($img);

    $img_type = '';
    $thumb_size = 100;

    if ($_width > $_height)
    {
        // wide image
        $config['width'] = intval(($_width / $_height) * $thumb_size);
        if ($config['width'] % 2 != 0)
        {
            $config['width']++;
        }
        $config['height'] = $thumb_size;
        $img_type = 'wide';
    }
    else if ($_width < $_height)
    {
        // landscape image
        $config['width'] = $thumb_size;
        $config['height'] = intval(($_height / $_width) * $thumb_size);
        if ($config['height'] % 2 != 0)
        {
            $config['height']++;
        }
        $img_type = 'landscape';
    }
    else
    {
        // square image
        $config['width'] = $thumb_size;
        $config['height'] = $thumb_size;
        $img_type = 'square';
    }

    $this->load->library('image_lib');
    $this->image_lib->initialize($config);
    $this->image_lib->resize();

    // reconfigure the image lib for cropping
    $conf_new = array(
        'image_library' => 'gd2',
        'source_image' => $img_thumb,
        'create_thumb' => FALSE,
        'maintain_ratio' => FALSE,
        'width' => $thumb_size,
        'height' => $thumb_size
    );

    if ($img_type == 'wide')
    {
        $conf_new['x_axis'] = ($config['width'] - $thumb_size) / 2 ;
        $conf_new['y_axis'] = 0;
    }
    else if($img_type == 'landscape')
    {
        $conf_new['x_axis'] = 0;
        $conf_new['y_axis'] = ($config['height'] - $thumb_size) / 2;
    }
    else
    {
        $conf_new['x_axis'] = 0;
        $conf_new['y_axis'] = 0;
    }

    $this->image_lib->initialize($conf_new);

    $this->image_lib->crop();
}