How to scale images in a controller

[avalanche123]

How to scale images in a controller

[avalanche123]

You can get ahold of Imagine service by calling $container->get('imagine'); once you have it, http://imagine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html will help you with how to use it

[stoefln]

thanks very much!

[jmikola]

Since I just implemented this last night in JmikolaImagineBundle, I'd suggest something like:

<?php
$box = $image->getSize();
$resizedImage = $image->resize($box->scale(1.5));

That would scale an image by its own dimensions (probably what you want).

[avalanche123]

may I reiterate:

<?php
$image->resize($image->getSize()->scale(1.5));

[jmikola]

@avalanche123: I guess you don't care about Law of Demeter anymore :)

[avalanche123]

@jmikola, do care :) here we're dealing with Box immutable value object (immutable and value object pretty much assumes each other). I feel that law of demeter makes a lot of sense when each method call is returning another object. so if we had A::b() -> B and B::c() -> C then

<?php
$a = new A();
$a->b()->c(); // would be terrible as you'd have to mock the whole chain in tests

while in our case we'd do something like:

<?php
$size = new Box(100, 100);

// stub out initial size
$image->expects($this->once())
    ->method('getSize')
    ->will($this->returnValue($size))
;

$image->expects($this->once())
    ->method('resize')
    ->with(new Box(150, 150))
;

// our filter that executes my above code
$filter->apply($image);

As you can see, mocking value objects is unnecessary as they are easy to construct and have on dependencies on other objects (easy to construct and have no dependencies is pretty much the same thing).

Another example would be PHP's DateTime class, it is globally accessible and easy to construct.

To conclude, don't violate the LOD for service objects, while don't bother with it in cases where object operates on its internal state. For example, builder's fluent interface, but not the factory method...

Cheers! :)

[avalanche123]

just realized, that the example is talking about and applicable to 'newables' in general and not only value objects

you can read about 'newables' at http://misko.hevery.com/2008/09/30/to-new-or-not-to-new/