Implements an adaptive resize function just like the phpthumbs library implementation
What it does is resize the image to get as close as possible to the desired dimensions, then crops the image down to the proper size from the center. This is called adaptive resizing. phpThumb
- Simply download the source code here: magento-adaptive-resize.zip and extract into your Magento install directory.
- Flush the Magento cache
Now where ever you can call the normal resize() method on an image you can call adaptiveResize() instead!
Example:
<img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'thumbnail')->adaptiveResize(160, 213) ?>" width="160" height="213" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()); ?>" />