Introduction
Recently, I needed a plugin to upload an image using SWF upload and to crop the uploaded image using jQuery and then save the crop result. I couldn't find this combination, so I've tried to combine these requests: SWF upload, crop with jQuery and PHP.
I've found something about SWF upload here and something about jQuery image crop here. Another request was to limit the upload to one file only, to some specific image types and a specified file size. These requests needed a PHP validation too.
These being said, let’s move on to the requirements:
Ok, now let’s see the implementation:
- Set the JS variables needed in the jQuery and then PHP cropping process:
<?php
require_once("config.php");
?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="generator" content="http://www.php-code.net" />
<title>SWF image upload & crop for php using jQuery</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var baseURL = "<?php echo BASE_URL;?>";
var jsThumbWidth = "100";
var jsThumbHeight= "100";
var jsCurrentLargeImageWidth;
var jsCurrentLargeImageHeight;
var varX1= 0;
var varY1= 0;
var varX2= 0;
var varY2= 0;
var varW = 0;
var varH = 0;
</script>
–> the “config.php” file contains configuration settings and, for this case, looks like this:
<?php
define("BASE_URL", "http://demo.php-code.net/swf_upload_and_crop");
?>
- Include all necessary files (JS and CSS):
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>
/swf_upload_and_crop/js/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>
/swf_upload_and_crop/js/functions.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>
/swf_upload_and_crop/js/upload/jquery.imgareaselect.js">
</script><!--
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>
/swf_upload_and_crop/js/upload/purejstemplate_jquery.js">
</script> <!--
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>
/swf_upload_and_crop/js/upload/swfupload.js">
</script><!--
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>
/swf_upload_and_crop/js/upload/swfupload.handlers.js">
</script><!--
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>
/swf_upload_and_crop/css/main.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>
/swf_upload_and_crop/css/upload/imgareaselect-default.css" />
<!--
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>
/swf_upload_and_crop/css/upload/swfupload.css" /><!--
- Set the configuration for SWF upload:
<script type="text/javascript">
var swfu;
window.onload = function() {
var settings = {
flash_url : baseURL + "/media/swfupload.swf",
upload_url: baseURL + "/functions.php?upload_user_image",
file_size_limit : "1 MB",
prevent_swf_caching: true,
file_types : "*.jpg; *.jpeg; *.gif; *.png",
file_types_description: "Multimedia files",
file_post_name : 'uploaded_image',
custom_settings : {
messageTargetId : "message",
cancelButtonId : "btnCancel",
fileTemplateId : "tplFileQueue",
queueContainer : "uploadQueueContainer",
queue : {},
uploadSessionError : false
},
button_width: "61",
button_height: "22",
button_placeholder_id: "spanButtonPlaceHolder",
button_window_mode: SWFUpload.WINDOW_MODE.TRANSPARENT,
button_cursor: SWFUpload.CURSOR.HAND,
swfupload_loaded_handler : swfUploadLoaded,
file_queued_handler : fileQueued,
file_queue_error_handler : fileQueueError,
file_dialog_complete_handler : fileDialogComplete,
upload_start_handler : uploadStart,
upload_progress_handler : uploadProgress,
upload_error_handler : uploadError,
upload_success_handler : uploadSuccess,
upload_complete_handler : uploadComplete
};
swfu = new SWFUpload(settings);
};
</script>
</head>
- Create the HTML template for SWF upload:
<body>
<h2>SWF image upload & crop for php using jQuery</h2>
<div id="tplFileQueue" style="display:none;">
<li id="#?=data.id?#" class="uploadOpen fileQueueItem">
<div class="items">
<strong>#?=data.name?#</strong>
<b>#?=data.size?#</b>
<b>#?=data.type?#</b>
<em id="message">#?=data.message?#</em>
<span class="status" >#?=data.status?#</span>
</div>
</li>
</div>
<div class="pageUpload" id="content">
<form action="#" id="uploadForm">
<div class="boxGray">
<div class="boxGrayMargin">
<div id="spanButtonPlaceHolder"></div>
<input id="btnUpload" onclick="alert('da'); return false;"
type="button" value="Browse..." style="width: 61px;
height: 22px; font-size: 8pt;"/>
<p>Allowed image size: 1 MB. </p>
<p>Allowed extensions: *.jpg; *.jpeg; *.gif; *.png.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="divLoadingContent" style="background-color: #FFFF66;
border-top: solid 4px #FF9966; border-bottom:
solid 4px #FF9966; margin: 10px 25px; padding: 10px 15px;
display: none;">SWFUpload is loading. Please wait...</div>
<div id="divLongLoading" style="background-color: #FFFF66;
border-top: solid 4px #FF9966; border-bottom:
solid 4px #FF9966; margin: 10px 25px; padding: 10px 15px;
display: none;">SWFUpload loading failed.
Please check to see if you have Flash activated and a
valid version of Flash Player.</div>
<div id="divAlternateContent" style="background-color: #FFFF66;
border-top: solid 4px #FF9966; border-bottom: solid 4px #FF9966;
margin: 10px 25px; padding: 10px 15px; display: none;">
Sorry. SWFUpload loading failed. You must install or
upgrade your Flash Player.
Please visit <a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/
download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
Adobe website</a> to download Flash Player.
</div>
<ul id="uploadQueueContainer" class="upload"></ul>
<div class="boxGraySimple" id="footerStatus">
<div class="boxGraySimpleTop"><div>
</div></div><div class="boxGraySimpleMargin">
<div class="message"></div>
<div class="submit">
<p><span class="btn"><a href="javascript:;"
onclick="save_upload();return false;" id="add_file">
SAVE</a></span></p>
</div>
</div><div class="boxGraySimpleBottom"><div> </div></div></div>
</form>
<div id="thumbnail"></div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#thumbnail').imgAreaSelect({show: true,
x1: varX1,
y1: varY1,
x2: varX2,
y2: varY2,
onSelectChange: showPreview});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
- The
save_upload function is the function that should save the image (is located in “js/upload/swfupload.handlers.js“) if everything is ok and looks like this (you can notice the condition “if(fileContor == 1)” which is used to check how many files we are allowed to upload):
function save_upload(){
var uploadError = 0;
stats = swfu.getStats();
var cropDataString = '';
cropDataString += '&x1=' + $('#x1').val();
cropDataString += '&y1=' + $('#y1').val();
cropDataString += '&x2=' + $('#x2').val();
cropDataString += '&y2=' + $('#y2').val();
cropDataString += '&w=' + $('#w').val();
cropDataString += '&h=' + $('#h').val();
if(fileContor == 1){
$.ajax({
type: "post",
url: baseURL + "/functions.php?save_upload",
data: "file_name=" + fileName + cropDataString,
cache: false,
success: function(msg){
msgJSON = JSON.parse(msg);
if(msgJSON && typeof(msgJSON.response)
!= 'undefined' && msgJSON.response != 'ok'){
if(msgJSON.response == 'error'){
alert("The file type is
not within the allowed ones!");
}
else if(msgJSON.response ==
'error_save'){
alert("Image could not be saved!");
}
else if(msgJSON.response ==
'error_dates'){
alert("2 - No file added!");
}
if(stats.files_queued==0 &&
fileContor == 0){
uploadError=3;
}
if(uploadError==3){
alert('3 - No file added!');
}
}
else if(msgJSON && typeof(msgJSON.response)
!= 'undefined' && msgJSON.response == 'ok'){
location.href = baseURL +
"/upload_images/" + msgJSON.file_name;
}
fileContor--;
}
});
}
else{
alert("1 - No file added!");
}
}
OBS: I used the old JavaScript alert() function, but I suggest you to use the more beautiful version of this, named jAlert(). You can find some documentation for this here.
History
- 11th August, 2010: Initial post
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