PHP code for creating icons

Question

I am currently working on a huge back-end application in the Zend Framework. Many times I get the wrong icon for an object or action.

My question is, is there any php code for automatically creating icons?

Of course, these icons will not be generated magically, the best scenario is that we have a collection of icons that have a type.

• Object (user, category, product, rss, etc.)
• Action (add, change, delete, update, etc.)

This way we can create badges by mixing different types of badges on the fly.

Code to create an icon to remove a user from 32x32 and delete an icon in the lower right corner of the icon.

$ icon = new Icon ();
$ icon-> object ('user') -> action ('delete');
$ icon-> action_align ('right') -> action_valign ('bottom');
$ icon-> action_height (10) -> action_width (10);
$ icon-> height (32) -> width (32);
$ icon-> create ();

This is just an example of how we can create an icon that has never been before.

Answer 1

You can use the GD library to export images, not in the .ico format, but .bmp will be fine. With Imagick, it seems that you can make .ico files directly.

Answer 2

Hi, I can suggest you create a file like this:

Image thumbnail filter

<?php
/**
 * Class for thumbnailing images
 *
 * @author Michał Bachowski ([e-mail])
 * @package JPL
 * @subpackage   Jpl_Filter
 * @version 0.1
 * @uses Zend_Filter_Interface, IMagick
 * @license   http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd     New BSD License
 */
class Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail {
    /**
     * Thumbnail width
     *
     * @var integer
     */
    protected $_width   = null;
    /**
     * Thumbnail height
     *
     * @var integer
     */
    protected $_height  = null;
    /**
     * Information whether to keep ratio or not while making thumbnail
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    protected $_bestFit = true;
    /**
     * Information whether crop image or just to resize it
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    protected $_crop    = false;
    /**
     * Method sets destination thumbnail width
     *
     * @param  integer  $width
     * @return Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail
     */
    public function setWidth( $width = null ) {
        $this->_width = (int) $width;
        return $this;
    }
    /**
     * Method sets destination thumbnail height
     *
     * @param  integer  $height
     * @return Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail
     */
    public function setHeight( $height = null ) {
        $this->_height = (int) $height;
        return $this;
    }
    /**
     * Method changes behaviour of filter.
     * Filter will resize image exactly to given dimensions (false)
     * or resize image to fit given dimensions but keep original dimension ratio (true).
     * Setting bestFit to true both dimensions are become mandatory!
     *
     * @param  bool     $bestFit
     * @return Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail
     */
    public function setBestFit( $bestFit = false ) {
        $this->_bestFit = (bool) $bestFit;
        return $this;
    }
    /**
     * Method changes behaviour of filter.
     * Filter either just resizes image (false)
     * or resizes with keeping ratio and crop to best fit given width and height (true)
     * If true ommits self::$_bestFit attribute!
     *
     * @param  bool $crop
     * @return Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail
     */
    public function setCrop( $crop = false ) {
        $this->_crop = (bool) $crop;
        return $this;
    }
    /**
     * Method filters given file - makes thumb
     *
     * @param  string   $file   path to file
     * @return string   name of file
     */
    public function filter( $file ) {
        $im = new IMagick( $file );
        if ( $this->_crop ) {
            $im->cropThumbnailImage(
                $this->_width,
                $this->_height
            );
        } else {
            $im->thumbnailImage(
                $this->_width,
                $this->_height,
                $this->_bestFit
            );
        }
        $im->writeImage( $file );
    }
}