NAME

Apache::Image - Generate a new image size, e.g. Thumbnail on the fly of any image, even dynamically generated (EXPERIMENTAL RELEASE)

VERSION

This document describes Apache::Image version 0.0.1

SYNOPSIS

# Where are my images
Alias /myimages /tmp/images

# Example URL for Thumbnail version of /myimages/TheBeach/Friend.jpg
# http://localhost/z/image/thumbnail/myimages/TheBeach/Friend.jpg

# Thumbnail versions
<Location /z/image/thumbnail>
	SetHandler perl-handler
	PerlHandler Apache::Image
	PerlSetVar ImageMaxSize 80
</Location>

# Medium views
<Location /z/image/medium>
	SetHandler perl-handler
	PerlHandler Apache::Image
	PerlSetVar ImageMaxSize 400
</Location>

DESCRIPTION

Automatically generate thumbnail images on the fly from any Apache source. This includes but is not limited to: local files; Subversion; Generated / Dynamic images from CGIâ PHP, mod_perl and more.

Features: (XXX fix formating)

* Generate thumbnails of any size
* Fast caching (using internal redirects to local file handles)
* Content of original can come from any source

INTERFACE

DIAGNOSTICS

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CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Apache::Image requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Currently Image::Magick but soon to be Image::Thumbnail to allow independence of backend.

Future to include another Image Thumbnail module for non images (movie frames, word doc, pdf and others).

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-apache-thumbnail@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Scott Penrose <scottp@dd.com.au>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2006, Scott Penrose <scottp@dd.com.au>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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