Custom thumbnail size?

[AbsoluteVM]

Can you utilise a custom size for templating?

I don't want everything to be the same size. Do I have to use a external image handler?

If I use:
<?php echo $manufacturer->images[0]->displayMediaThumb('',false);?>

It will only output the config'd size..

[K&K media production]

You can use css.

In configuration set the biggest size for the thumbs. Then with css you can resize the images.

Example:

img.browseProductImage {width: 100px;}

[AbsoluteVM]

Thanks for your reply.

I guess I can use CSS, but it feels like this is fairly bad practice when i'm resizing a large image on every page...

Do there is no internal syntax that I can use for displayMediaThumb that will crop/resize?

[K&K media production]

No. Either you use the size from your config for each or you set up the size for the biggest thumb in the config and resize the smaller ones with css. So you can have a css class for categories, products and so on...

[AbsoluteVM]

Is the VM system for images being improved? That's mickey mouse, loading a large thumbnail for a possibly smaller image...

I want to do it on the fly so I'm not using a 100KB image for what could be a 10KB image.

[jenkinhill]

I set the thumbs to be generated at the largest size I am likely to need, and  use max-width in css where needed to control the width without affecting the width/height proportions. I guess you could use min-width in the same way, but that does cause some loss of resolution with too small images.

[anisimow]

Can you utilise a custom size for templating?

I don't want everything to be the same size. Do I have to use a external image handler?

If I use:
<?php echo $manufacturer->images[0]->displayMediaThumb('',false);?>

It will only output the config'd size..

try this only for product  images

Code Select Expand


if (!empty($product->images[0]) && is_a($product->images[0],'VmImage')) {
//$image = $product->images[0]->displayMediaThumb ('class="featuredProductImage" border="0"', FALSE);
$width=141;//your width
$height=195;//your height
$prod_img = &$product->images[0];
$file_name_thumb = $prod_img->createThumbName($width,$height);
$resizedImage_url = $prod_img->file_url_folder_thumb.$file_name_thumb.'.'.$prod_img->file_extension;
if (!file_exists($resizedImage_url)) {
$resizedImage_url = $prod_img->createThumb($width,$height);
}
$image = JHTML::image(JURI::root().$resizedImage_url, '', '');
} else {
$image = '';
}


[AbsoluteVM]

Hello, is that core ? That seems exactly what I need if it is CORE.

[anisimow]

Hello, is that core ? That seems exactly what I need if it is CORE.

It is taken from  core. Uou can use it wenever you want.

[baggiesmad]

Fantastic! Thanks anisimow

[jukov_b1]

anisimow many thanks for the fine decision
works at the Joomla version! 2.5.27 + VirtueMart 2.6.10