Image Hosting
Time for an update to the image hosting I think, after I have finished a few more features. First up a little overview of how the whole thing works. Starting immediately after you signup you are automatically given the ability to upload JPEG pictures to your account for hosting on blogs, websites, or wherever. This is completely free and with no bandwidth limits or advertising. Below you can see the current (boring, I’ll be the first to admit) screen for uploading to fckall.
Once you have uploaded your file you should be automatically taken to your control centre page, where you will see a short list of recent uploads. If not, you can jump there now by selecting ‘hosted images’ in the right-side navigation panel, as below.
Once on this page you will see the following information about each upload you have completed so far. Obviously if you are just starting there will only be one file here. Reading from the top left you can see the small icon indicating whether the image is active or not. By clicking here you can temporarily turn off/deny access to the picture. You will see the icon change on deactivated files, and you can reactivate by simply clicking again. Next is the full URL of the full sized image, then the image name itself that you can use a custom URL (more on that powerful feature later). Underneath are some basic details on the image, including the original filename you used when uploading, the upload date, dimensions, and the original filesize. Following that there are the option buttons, at the moment just for deleting that image.
Now onto the image viewing itself. The most basic URL contains the image name and one of three preset sizes, ‘full’ (for a larger view), ‘thumb ‘(for a thumbnail) and ‘original’ (for the original image).
http://im.fckall.com/[image name]-[size]/
The next option is to resize the image, this is done by prefixing the image name with ‘resize’ and adding a resolution to the end of the URL in the format ‘widthxheight’. Beware though, this will literally resize the image to that size regardless of aspect ratio or quality.
http://im.fckall.com/resize/[image name]/[width]x[height]/
This can leave you with undesirable results, such as those below.
If you want to size an image to fit in a specific place, with a fixed width or height, you can simply use the ’scale’ option. Here you need only provide a single dimension in the form ‘widthx’ or ‘xheight’ and the script will automatically scale the other dimension to keep the aspect ratio correct.
http://im.fckall.com/scale/[image name]/[width]x/
http://im.fckall.com/scale/[image name]/x[height]/
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