multiple images uploading and converting them to thumbnails in cakephp

Question

Please can anyone help me out in finding the best imagecomponent for uploading, resizing, cropping. And little help is needed in this following code.....

index.ctp

<?php
 echo $this->form->create(array('type'=>'file'));
 echo $this->form->input('upload',array('type'=>'file','multiple'));
 echo $this->form->end('submit');
?>

if I try to print the file info in TestsController.php

 <?php 
  class TestsController extends  AppController{

     public function index(){
        // echo '<pre>';
        print_r($this->data);
  }
}
?>

it ends up with an empty Array() ....is there any other way around...

Answer 1

help for your code..

    pr( $this->request->data );
    // user $this->request->data instead of $this->data
    //for printing submitted values 

and for image there is many component available you can use according your need.......... can visit these links.. http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles?by=crop

http://labs.iamkoa.net/2007/10/23/image-upload-component-cakephp/

Answer 2

This is what you need: Uploader

I hope you are using 2.x version of cake.