CodeIgniter Resizing And Cropping With Axis

Your given Codeigniter code is OK except for one piece of logic: You're operating on and outputting to the same image file twice, so your output file gets overwritten by the last change to the original file.

I believe this is a limitation of CI's Image_Lib class, as each operation is done separately - there is no way to "resize and crop" in one go.

You have to reinitialize the Image_Lib class between each action to make sure the next action gets called on the output file of the last operation.

$img_config = array(    'source_image'      => $src,    'new_image'         => $save_to,    'maintain_ratio'    => false,    'width'             => $targ_w,    'height'            => $targ_h,    'x_axis'            => $_POST['x'],    'y_axis'            => $_POST['y']);$this->load->library('image_lib', $img_config);$this->image_lib->resize();// Now change the input file to the one that just got resized// See also $this->image_lib->clear()$img_config['source_image'] = $save_to;$this->image_lib->initialize($img_config); $this->image_lib->crop();

You could also use two different config arrays:

$this->load->library('image_lib');$this->image_lib->initialize(array(    'source_image'      => $src,    'new_image'         => $save_to,    'maintain_ratio'    => false,    'width'             => $targ_w,    'height'            => $targ_h,));$this->image_lib->resize();$this->image_lib->clear();$this->image_lib->initialize(array(    'source_image'      => $save_to,    'x_axis'            => $_POST['x'],    'y_axis'            => $_POST['y']));$this->image_lib->crop();

Alternatively, you could create the copy of the image file first and then operate on that in each call to the image lib class, saving you the hassle of reinitializing with a new source_image:

copy($src, $save_to);$this->load->library('image_lib', array(    'source_image'      => $save_to,    'maintain_ratio'    => false,    'width'             => $targ_w,    'height'            => $targ_h,    'x_axis'            => $_POST['x'],    'y_axis'            => $_POST['y']));$this->image_lib->resize();$this->image_lib->crop();