Hey guys. This isn't so much a specific PHP question, but rather a question as to how to go about something. I would like to use a javascript cropping tool called jscropper (created by David Spurr - pretty nice, check it out here). This tool does not have any way of saving the images, however, just previewing them. So I'm gonna give it a shot, but I'm not too familiar with image editing in PHP. The only way I can think of how to do it right now is to use GDLibrary to crop the image based on the coordinates the javscript provides. I'm by no means familiar with GDLibrary, but I'm sure I can figure that part out with a bit of research. My question is, is this the best way to go about it?

This post has been edited by paintingtheweb: Apr 11 2008, 11:00 AM

Well, it will be server side regardless so yes I would say PHP would be the way to go about it.

It would simply be a matter of taking the JS coordinates and sending them as a POST request with the image, then use the GD tools to crop accordingly.

What are you planning on using it for? I'm just trying to think of a time where I might use such a method -- I guess for avatars and the like it would be good.

I'm using it for a blog/news/editorial admin. One of the great things about the cropper tool is that you can set ratios so the layouts will always remain the same. This way people can upload any image they want without having to through an image editing program to crop it to the right size. They don't even have to know what the right size is, just use the tool to do all that for them. Make sense?