CakePHP resize image served from CakeResponse with Timthumb

Question

I have a view that displays an image from CakeResponse::file. I'm using the Media plugin to initially upload the image that saves the basename to the database which works fine, however I'm blocking access to the media directory with .htaccess so I need to serve the image with a response. I'm using the Html helper to print the img tag.

Images/view.ctp:

echo $this->Html->image(FULL_BASE_URL.'/Images/imgView/'.$image['Image']['basename']);

Images is my controller and imgView is the action that sends the response:

ImagesController.php:

public function imgView($file) {
    $this->response->file(WWW_ROOT.'media/transfer/img/'.$file);
    return $this->response;
}

This works great, however what i'd like to do is resize the image sent from CakeResponse::file dynamically using Timthumb but I haven't had any luck so far, this is what i've tried with timthumb.php in the root of /app/webroot.

Images/view.ctp:

echo $this->Html->image('/timthumb.php?src='.FULL_BASE_URL. '/Images/imgView/'.$image['Image']['basename'].'&h=250&w=250');

This just returns an invalid image error, any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can try using TimthumbPlugin for CakePHP. It wraps the timthumb library and provides an easy to use helper for that.