PHP and jQuery – Crop Image and Upload using Croppie plugin

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In this article, we are going to crop an image using jQuery Croppie plugin and upload the image via Ajax request in PHP.

There are a number of options to customize including the output image size, shape and orientation.

We will need to create two files with the following source code in it

  • index.php
  • croppie.php

Complete Source Code

index.php

<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>PHP and jQuery - Crop Image and Upload using Croppie plugin</title>
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/croppie/2.6.2/croppie.min.css">
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/croppie/2.6.2/croppie.js"></script>

  <meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
</head>

<body>
<div class="container">
  <div class="card" style="max-height: 500px;">
    <div class="card-header bg-info">PHP and jQuery - Crop Image and Upload using Croppie plugin</div>
    <div class="card-body">

      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-4 text-center">
        <div id="upload-demo"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="col-md-4" style="padding:5%;">
        <strong>Select image to crop:</strong>
        <input type="file" id="image">

        <button class="btn btn-success btn-block btn-upload-image" style="margin-top:2%">Upload Image</button>
        </div>

        <div class="col-md-4">
        <div id="preview-crop-image" style="background:#9d9d9d;width:300px;padding:50px 50px;height:300px;"></div>
        </div>
      </div>

    </div>
  </div>
</div>


<script type="text/javascript">


var resize = $('#upload-demo').croppie({
    enableExif: true,
    enableOrientation: true,    
    viewport: { // Default { width: 100, height: 100, type: 'square' } 
        width: 200,
        height: 200,
        type: 'square' //square
    },
    boundary: {
        width: 300,
        height: 300
    }
});


$('#image').on('change', function () { 
  var reader = new FileReader();
    reader.onload = function (e) {
      resize.croppie('bind',{
        url: e.target.result
      }).then(function(){
        console.log('jQuery bind complete');
      });
    }
    reader.readAsDataURL(this.files[0]);
});


$('.btn-upload-image').on('click', function (ev) {
  resize.croppie('result', {
    type: 'canvas',
    size: 'viewport'
  }).then(function (img) {
    $.ajax({
      url: "croppie.php",
      type: "POST",
      data: {"image":img},
      success: function (data) {
        html = '<img src="' + img + '" />';
        $("#preview-crop-image").html(html);
      }
    });
  });
});


</script>


</body>
</html>

 

croppie.php

<?php
$image = $_POST['image'];

list($type, $image) = explode(';',$image);
list(, $image) = explode(',',$image);

$image = base64_decode($image);
$image_name = time().'.png';
file_put_contents('uploads/'.$image_name, $image);

echo 'successfully uploaded';

?>

 

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