[Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

[Alex Pavlovic]

I use following

Data::UUID ( so each image has unique identifier )
GD ( interface to GD )
Image::Resize ( nicer syntax )

Plugin sounds intresting.

Cheers.

On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:39, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> I am writing a plugin to do this as we speak.  Expect it to hit CPAN by
> the end of the weekend.  The API looks something like:
>
> my $image = $c->register_image('/path/to/the/image');
>
> $image will have methods like $image->url that return a fully-qualified
> URL that your web server can statically serve the image from.  You can
> also expire the images, delete them, get a scaled version (for exciting
> AJAX scaling effects; yay), etc.
>
> The details aren't completely worked out yet, though, and are subject to
> major changes.  (This was going to be a Controller in my app, but I
> guess a plugin is more useful to others.  Major change #1 :)
>
> > And now I have a couple of image plugin related questions.  Are there any
> > Catalyst plugins to help deal with uploaded images?  I'm looking for
> > something along the lines of:
> >
> >   1.  Generate a random name to avoid duplicate filename conflicts and
> > move the uploaded image to an image directory.
> >
> >   2.  Generate a thumbnail for the image.
> >
> >   3.  Store the needed image path and size info in a database.
> >
> >   4.  Helper functions to spit out an appropriate image tag in a template
> >       for images in the database.
>
> "Images in the database"?  Depending on what these are, you might want
> to look up URI::data.
>
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