Kirby GetImage Plugin

GetImage is a KirbyCMS Plugin that hooks off the functionality of the Thumb plugin and allows the use of remote images with thumb();

How it Works

The Plugin downloads the specified image to the directory of the current page (e.g. a blog post).

This image object is then passed to thumb() to generate a thumbnail with the specified options, and can be outputted as an URL (or <img> tag from either the root URL or another URL e.g. a CDN such as Amazon Cloudfront).

Usage

Currently, the only way I have found to pass the $page variable is through a function argument, so this is the reason for the first argument. Hopefully it will be taken out in subsequent releases!

getimage($page, $imgurl, $options[, $tag])

$page

is the $page variable containing the information about the page that the image will be saved to (hopefully will be removed in the future)

$imgurl

is the URL of the image that you want to save

$options

is an array containing the information to be passed along to thumb() and also an extra 'cdn' array key, where you can specify another URL for the images to be hosted from

$tag (optional)

is a boolean value stating whether the returned text contains the ing tag or just the URL to the image

Example Usage

  getimage($page, 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/oHg5SJYRHA0/maxresdefault.jpg', array('height'=>'300', 'width'=>'984', 'crop'=>true, 'cdn'=>'http://cdn.test.com', 'fallback'=>'hqdefault.jpg'), false);

would produce something like this: http://cdn.test.com/thumbs/3b20166aa8acef1a4eeb36f46d4ab3ed.984.300.0.1.0.100.jpg?1369859345

(due to the nature of thumb(), there is no need for echo as it doesn't seem to work when returned)