thumb_imp ( smarty image plugin ) / News: Recent posts

Bugfix transparent index.
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This new improved thumb plugin gots some addons. For example a legend and supporting transparent GIFs.
Additionally there is a wrapper available from the old plugin to this one, so that you needn't change your HTML / smarty code.

The original version of thumb comes from Christoph Cerdmann (CE).

This is only a demo and test environment for some Smarty features and plugins.
Some samples for the thumb_imp plugin are included.

"Creating thumbnails of images is often exhausting and takes time nobody has. And so it seems clever to let PHP do this. Nevertheless there is one hitch: The thumbs are by far not high-quality. They almost always look better if you create them manually.
As you see, it is high time for this plugin! It automatically creates the tiny images and uses an unsharp mask to get the best quality possible. Of course the images are cached, because the unsharp mask needs more CPU-power than the conventional way." CE... read more