Cropper

Yii-Framework extension for uploading and cropping images

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist budyaga/yii2-cropper "*"

or add

"budyaga/yii2-cropper": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

Once the extension is installed, simply use it in your code by :

use budyaga\cropper\Widget;

<?php $form = ActiveForm::begin(['id' => 'form-profile']); ?>
    <?php echo $form->field($model, 'photo')->widget(Widget::className(), [
        'uploadUrl' => Url::toRoute('/user/user/uploadPhoto'),
    ]) ?>
    <div class="form-group">
        <?php echo Html::submitButton('Save', ['class' => 'btn btn-primary']) ?>
    </div>
<?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>

Widget has following properties:

In UserController:

public function actions()
{
    return [
        'uploadPhoto' => [
            'class' => 'budyaga\cropper\actions\UploadAction',
            'url' => 'http://your_domain.com/uploads/user/photo',
            'path' => '@frontend/web/uploads/user/photo',
        ]
    ];
}

Action has following parameters:

You can use this widget on frontend and backend. For example: user can change his userpic and administrator can change users userpic.

Operates as follows:

User click on new photo area or drag file

The picture is loaded by JavaScript FileAPI.

This picture is displayed in the widget and users have the ability to crop it or upload another picture

When the user clicks "Crop image", a request with file and coordinates is sent to the server. This picture is displayed in the form, and user can save it, or change crop area, or upload another photo.