Download jquery plugin from: http://code.google.com/p/jcrop/
create a folder named: crop
create a folder named: css
create a folder named: img
create a folder named: js
move Jcrop.jpg and jquery.Jcrop.min.css to /css folder
move jquery.color.js, jquery.Jcrop.js and jquery.min.js to /js folder
place a image named pool.jpg to /img folder
create a file index.php:
<?php
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/jquery.Jcrop.min.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.color.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.Jcrop.js"></script>
?>
<img src="/img/pool.jpg" id="cropbox" alt="Flowers" />
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function($){
jQuery('#cropbox').Jcrop({
onChange: showCoords,
onSelect: showCoords
});
function showCoords(c)
{
jQuery('#x1').val(c.x);
jQuery('#y1').val(c.y);
jQuery('#x2').val(c.x2);
jQuery('#y2').val(c.y2);
jQuery('#w').val(c.w);
jQuery('#h').val(c.h);
};
$("#imageResizeValirables").submit(function() {
var formData = $(this).serialize();
$.post('/action.php', formData, function(returnData) {
if(returnData == 'success') {
$("#croppedImage").attr("src", "/crop/"+$("#beCroppedImage").attr("value") + "?" + new Date().getTime());
} else {
alert("Try again please.");
}
});
});
});
</script>
<form onsubmit="return false;" id="imageResizeValirables" class="coords">
<input type="hidden" id="beCroppedImage" name="img" value="pool.jpg">
<input type="hidden" size="4" id="x1" name="x1" />
<input type="hidden" size="4" id="y1" name="y1" />
<input type="hidden" size="4" id="x2" name="x2" />
<input type="hidden" size="4" id="y2" name="y2" />
<input type="hidden" size="4" id="w" name="w" />
<input type="hidden" size="4" id="h" name="h" />
<input type="submit" value="Resize">
</form>
<img id="croppedImage" alt='' />
create another file action.php
$docRoot = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];
$imageLocation = $docRoot . "/app/webroot/img/" . $_POST["img"];
$newImageLocation = $docRoot . "/app/webroot/crop/" . $_POST["img"];
if (file_exists($imageLocation)) {
list($current_width, $current_height) = getimagesize($imageLocation);
$x1 = (int) $_POST['x1'];
$y1 = (int) $_POST['y1'];
$x2 = (int) $_POST['x2'];
$y2 = (int) $_POST['y2'];
$w = (int) $_POST['w'];
$h = (int) $_POST['h'];
$crop_width = $w;
$crop_height = $h;
$new = imagecreatetruecolor($crop_width, $crop_height);
$current_image = imagecreatefromjpeg($imageLocation);
imagecopyresampled($new, $current_image, 0, 0, $x1, $y1, $crop_width, $crop_height, $w, $h);
imagejpeg($new, $newImageLocation, 100);
echo "success";
exit;
}
echo "fail";
exit;