Archive for September 16th, 2006

SpinDrop.us: Cropping Images using DHTML (Prototype) and symfony

PHP Developer - September 16th, 2006

From the SpinDrop.us blog, there’s a new tutorial on combining the power of dynamic HTML and PHP to create an image cropping script for your website.

Years ago when I was working on a photo gallery for davedash.com I got the art of making tumbnails down fairly well. It was automated and didn’t allow for specifying how the thumbnail should be made. With dozens of photos (which was a lot back then), when would I find that kind of time.

Flashback to today, for my company… we want users with avatars… but nothing too large. Maybe a nice 80×80 picture. Well the coolest UI I’ve seen was Apple’s Address Book which let you use this slider mechanism to crop a fixed sized image from a larger image.

They create a pretty slick little app, using symfony to handle the framework for the app, some Javascript in the form of Prototype to make the controls, and plenty of CSS/HTML to make it usable. You can check out the demo here.

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Zend Developer Zone: Zend and IBM Post QEDWiki Screencast

PHP Developer - September 16th, 2006

The Zend Developer Zone has posted some information about a screencast of the QEDWiki they’ve covered previously from IBM.

We’ve covered QEDWiki before but so far we’ve only had screenshots to show. Now we’ve got a full blown screencast. The demo application they show is the “hardware store” scenario we first saw in the article with Dan Gisolfi. Each time I see a new screencast of this application it gets better. This time, the properties panels are fleshed out and everything looks a lot more finished.

They remind readers of what the QEDWiki is - “the most sophisticated applications to have been built on top of the Zend Framework so far” that allows users to create applications in a drag and drop style right on a wiki page. Check out the screencast for a look at how it all works.

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