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Inside this article we will see CakePHP 4 Crop Image before Upload using Croppie.js. Already we have an article to Upload Image Using Ajax in CakePHP 4.

In this tutorial we will use a jquery plugin Croppie.js. This plugin uses a CSS and JS file. Either you can use these plugin files via CDN link or by putting them into your application /webroot folder.

This tutorial will be very interesting to see and super easy to implement.

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Let’s get started.

CakePHP 4 Installation

To create a CakePHP project, run this command into your shell or terminal. Make sure composer should be installed in your system.

$ composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app:~4.0 mycakephp

Above command will creates a project with the name called mycakephp.

Create Controller

Open project into terminal and run this command to create controller file.

$ bin/cake bake controller Site --no-actions

It will create SiteController.php file inside /src/Controller folder. Open controller file and write this code into it.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller;

class SiteController extends AppController
{
    public function initialize(): void
    {
        parent::initialize();
    }

    public function addImage()
    {
        // for the frontend layout
    }

    public function submitImage()
    {
        if ($this->request->is("ajax")) {
            $data = $this->request->getData('image');

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

            $data = base64_decode($data);
            $image_name = time() . '.png';
            $path =  WWW_ROOT . "/img/" . $image_name;

            file_put_contents($path, $data);
          
            // You can save into database table

            echo json_encode(['status' => 1, 'message' => "Image uploaded successfully"]);
            die;
        }
    }
}

Concept of Image Upload

Here, is the code snippet of image upload in above code of controller.

$data = $this->request->getData('image');

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

$data = base64_decode($data);
$image_name = time() . '.png';
$path =  WWW_ROOT . "/img/" . $image_name;

file_put_contents($path, $data);

WWW_ROOT . “img/” returns the path upto of /img folder of webroot.

It will upload the image into /webroot/img folder.

Create Template

Create Site folder inside /templates folder. Next, needs to create add_image.php file inside /templates/Site folder.

Open add_image.php file and write this following code into it. This will give the frontend layout for form.

<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>CakePHP 4 Crop Image Before Upload Using Croppie.js</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/croppie/2.6.2/croppie.min.css">
</head>


<body>
    <div class="container" style="margin-top:30px;">
        <div class="panel panel-primary">
            <div class="panel-heading">CakePHP 4 Crop Image Before Upload Using Croppie.js</div>
            <div class="panel-body">
                <div class="row">
                    <div class="col-md-4 text-center">
                        <div id="cropie-demo" style="width:250px"></div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="col-md-4" style="padding-top:30px;">
                        <strong>Select Image:</strong>
                        <input type="file" id="upload">
                        <br />
                        <button class="btn btn-success upload-result">Upload Image</button>
                    </div>


                    <div class="col-md-4">
                        <div id="image-preview" style="background:#e1e1e1;padding:30px;height:300px;"></div>
                    </div>
                </div>


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

    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/croppie/2.6.2/croppie.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $uploadCrop = $('#cropie-demo').croppie({
            enableExif: true,
            viewport: {
                width: 200,
                height: 200,
                type: 'circle'
            },
            boundary: {
                width: 300,
                height: 300
            }
        });


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


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

</body>

</html>

Disable CSRF Token

When we submit a cakephp form, it needs a CSRF token should be submitted with form submission request.

We are not interested to send CSRF token with form data. To disable it, Open Application.php from /src folder.

Remove these lines of code from middleware() method.

->add(new CsrfProtectionMiddleware([
    'httponly' => true,
]))

Add Route

Open routes.php file from /config folder. Add these routes into it.

//...

$routes->connect(
    '/upload-image',
    ['controller' => 'Site', 'action' => 'addImage']
);

$routes->connect(
    '/save-image',
    ['controller' => 'Site', 'action' => 'submitImage']
);

//...

Application Testing

Open terminal and run this command to start development server.

$ bin/cake server

URL: http://localhost:8765/upload-image

When we hit Upload Image button, it will save the cropped image into img folder of /webroot and also create a image preview at the right sided area.

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