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A Closer Look At Picture Settings
For the purposes of clarity and for reference purposes, let's take a moment to consider how picture settings work for (single picture) uploader builds.
Your ultimate goal, when you're building a picture uploader, is to call Trongate's upload_picture() method. However, when you call the upload_picture() method, you are required to pass in an array of data that represents your picture configuration options. Typically, this will result in a line of code that looks like this:
$this->upload_picture($config);
The table below shows all of the configuration options that can be passed into the upload_picture() method:
| Property | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| destination | the name of the directory where pictures should be uploaded to | yes |
| max_width | the maximum allowed width of uploaded pictures, in pixels | yes |
| max_height | the maximum allowed height of uploaded pictures, in pixels | yes |
| thumbnail_dir | the name of the directory where thumbnails should be uploaded to | no (this property is optional) |
| thumbnail_max_width | the maximum allowed width of thumbnails, in pixels | no (this property is optional) |
| thumbnail_max_height | the maximum allowed height of thumbnails, in pixels | no (this property is optional) |
Just To Let You Know
The max_width and max_height settings, as described above, have nothing to do with form validation! Instead, these values represent the dimensions that uploaded pictures will be resized down to, if necessary.Top Tip
Trongate comes with some pre-built form validation tests to assist with picture uploading situations. For full details, please refer to the file validation helperHELP & SUPPORT
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