NAME

Catalyst::Plugin::Images - Generate image tags for static files.

SYNOPSIS

	use Catalyst qw/
        Images
    /;

    # ... somewhere in your templates

    [% c.image_tag("foo.png", alt => "alt text") %];

DESCRIPTION

This plugin provides a quick and easy way to include your images on the page, automatically extracting and caching image metadata. It's automatically extendable, just pass whatever attribute you require as a key/value pair, and it will be added to the image tag. It will also look through a preset of folders so that you don't have to specify the full address to your image.

METHODS

image_tag $basename, %attrs

This method generates an image tag for the image named $basename, with the extra tags %attr automatically added to the resulting HTML tag. If you don't specify height/width, it will be autodetected from the image.

get_image_info $basename

Retrieve the information about the image either from the cache or by searching for it.

find_image_file $basename

Look inside all the search paths (see "CONFIGURATION") for an image named $basename, and return the full path to it, as a <Path::Class::File> object..

read_image_info $path

Given the full path, as a Path::Class::File object, return the attributes to be added to the image. This returns a list with width and height, using Image::Size.

image_path_to_uri $path, $basename

Generates a URI using "uri_for" in Catalyst, with the absolute path $path relativized to uri_base. See "CONFIGURATION".

get_cached_image_info

set_cached_image_info

see "CACHING IMAGE DATA" below.

setup

Overridden to seed configuration defaults.

CONFIGURATION

All configuration information is stored under the images key.

paths

This should be an array reference of Path::Class::Dir objects (easily generated with "path_to" in Catalyst) in which to search for images.

It defaults to root/static, root/images, root/static/images by default.

uri_base

This is the "base" prefix path for URI generation. For example, if an image was found at /www/static/images/foo.png and uri_base is /www then the URI generated with Catalyst/uri_for will be for /static/images/foo.png.

CACHING IMAGE DATA

The code will call get_cached_image_info and set_cached_image_info when appropriate. Currently both these operations are no op. You should override this if you care.

get_cached_image_info receives the base name, and should return the info hash.

set_cached_image_info receives the base name, and the info hash. It can use this data to expire the cache based on mtime, etc. The info hash contains the keys width, height, uri, and path.

SEE ALSO

Catalyst, Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple, Image::Size

AUTHOR

Yuval Kogman, nothingmuch@woobling.org

Last released by Tomas Doran, bobtfish@bobtfish.net

LICENSE

This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.