Template Variable for Uploading Images - need to predefine height and width

The basic structure of one of my sites features a simple content area featuring text and an image left aligned next to the text.

Rather than writing the HTML for each image, I need a solution for any content editor to simply browse and upload an image of their choosing.

I can achieved this with Template Variables, but there is one problem - I can’t guarantee that every content editor will always resize an image to the required size before upload, so I want to set a "safety" maximum width and height for those cases. Does anyone have a suggestion for how I can achieve this functionality?

Thanks.

I have just done something similar for my site. I use phpThumb to show the images, with the maximum height and width set in the call. Thus instead of showing the img as

I actually use

(There could be better solutions though!)

Michal.

phpThumb is a solution, personnally I use the DirectResize plugin with TVs.

DirectResize looks for the width and/org height attribute to resize your images (depending on which resizing mode you choose), which mean you can just write :

[tt]<img src="[*my_image_tv*]" width="80" />[/tt]

Pretty simple... DirectResize then rewrites the path to the cached resized image.
Works pretty well !

Quote from: davidm at Jun 20, 2008, 07:11 AM

phpThumb is a solution, personnally I use the DirectResize plugin with TVs.

DirectResize looks for the width and/org height attribute to resize your images (depending on which resizing mode you choose), which mean you can just write :

[tt]<img src="[*my_image_tv*]" width="80" />[/tt]

Pretty simple... DirectResize then rewrites the path to the cached resized image.
Works pretty well !

Thanks to you both.

David - DirectResize is a great solution and is really exactly what I was looking for - maxigallery for single images.