Winter CMS Media Plugin

Improved media handling for WinterCMS, including:

• Winter CMS image resizer replacement: Rendering modern image formats where they can be displayed by the browsers.
• Advanced image manipulation using the Intervention library.

Installation

composer

composer require mercator/wn-media-plugin
php artisan winter:up

github

git clone git@github.com:helmutkaufmann/wn-media-plugin.git

Twig Filters

iresize([width=null], [height=null], [filters=null], [extension=null], [quality=null])

or

ifilter([width=null], [height=null], [filters], [extension], [quality])

These are identical filters to resize images and apply filters to them.

If width and height are specified, the image is resized before applying any filters. This significantly boosts performance.

To keep the aspect ration of an image, set either width or height to zero (0).

Setting either width or height to null leaves this dimension untouched and results typically in distorted images. Examples:

{{ image | iresize(300, null) }}

resize only the width of the image. Likewise

{{ image | ifilter(null, 200) }}

resize only the height of the image

You can apply Intervention filters to the image. See the Intervention website for information about the available filters.

You can specify the filters as a Twig array:

{{ image | iresize(150, 100, [["blur", 1],["colorize", -100, 0, 0], ["flip"]])

Alternatively (but that this approach will be deprecated in the future) filters can be specified as a string, such as

{{ image | iresize(150, 100, "blur(1)->colorize(-100, 0, 0)->flip('v')" }}

Both examples would first resize the image to 150x100px, add a 1% blur filter, remove all red from the image and finally flip the image vertically.

By default, the plugin will serve an optimal image format depending on the rendering capabilities of the browser. If the optional parameter extension is specified, the plugin will convert the image to the image format corresponding to the extension. Valid extensions are jpg, gif, tiff and webp. If the respective image format supports compression, the quality can be explicitly set.

Consequence: If you specify an explicit exentsion, the browser might not be able to display it due to lack of functionality (e.g. webp images on certain Safari versions).

Twig Functions

exif([key])

Returns an array (key/value) of all EXIF meta data from image. Alternatively, if a key is set, it returns a string with the value for that EXIF key. If no data is found, null is returned.

Example

exif("Model")

returns the camera's model name if set.

iptc([key])

Returns an array (key/value) of all IPTC meta data from image. Alternatively, if a key is set, it returns a string with the value for that IPTC key. If no data is found, null is returned.

Limitations and next steps

This is a pre-production version of the plugin. Winter's original resize function has not been fully implemented, in particular mode. Implementation will follow in the very near future.

Error handling must still be implemented, in particular failure to apply a filter, in particular when a filter is incorrectly written (e.g. blurs instead of blur).

A word of caution

Intervention is rather resource-intensive. As a consequence:

• Apply Intervention filters carefully.
• For large files (at the moment, 8 megapixels), the initial resize of an image is handled by Winter's internal resizer. At the moment, this results in the original image being opened, resized, compressed, stored and then re-opened to apply any filers of the Intervention library before the final result is again compressed and saved to disk. This approach results generally in faster processing but re-compresses images twice, which implies a (slight) loss of quality.