PHP code to generate icons

Question

currently i am working on a huge back-end application in Zend Framework. A lot of times i end up using wrong icon for some object or action.

My Question Is there any php code to generate icons automatically????

Ofcourse these icons will not be generated magically, best case scenario is that we have a collection of icons which have the type of.

• Object (user,category,product,rss etc)
• Action (add,edit,delete,update etc)

This way we can create icons by mixing different types of icons on the fly.

The code for generating a icon to delete user with 32x32 and delete icon in bottom-right corner of the icon.

$icon = new Icon();
$icon->object('user')->action('delete');
$icon->action_align('right')->action_valign('bottom');
$icon->action_height(10)->action_width(10);
$icon->height(32)->width(32);
$icon->create();

This is just an example that how can we create a icon which was never exited before.

Answer 1

Hey i can suggest you to create filer like this one :

Filter that creates image thumbnail

<?php
/**
 * Class for thumbnailing images
 *
 * @author Michał Bachowski (michal@bachowski.pl)
 * @package JPL
 * @subpackage   Jpl_Filter
 * @version 0.1
 * @uses Zend_Filter_Interface, IMagick
 * @license   http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd     New BSD License
 */
class Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail {
    /**
     * Thumbnail width
     *
     * @var integer
     */
    protected $_width   = null;
    /**
     * Thumbnail height
     *
     * @var integer
     */
    protected $_height  = null;
    /**
     * Information whether to keep ratio or not while making thumbnail
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    protected $_bestFit = true;
    /**
     * Information whether crop image or just to resize it
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    protected $_crop    = false;
    /**
     * Method sets destination thumbnail width
     *
     * @param  integer  $width
     * @return Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail
     */
    public function setWidth( $width = null ) {
        $this->_width = (int) $width;
        return $this;
    }
    /**
     * Method sets destination thumbnail height
     *
     * @param  integer  $height
     * @return Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail
     */
    public function setHeight( $height = null ) {
        $this->_height = (int) $height;
        return $this;
    }
    /**
     * Method changes behaviour of filter.
     * Filter will resize image exactly to given dimensions (false)
     * or resize image to fit given dimensions but keep original dimension ratio (true).
     * Setting bestFit to true both dimensions are become mandatory!
     *
     * @param  bool     $bestFit
     * @return Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail
     */
    public function setBestFit( $bestFit = false ) {
        $this->_bestFit = (bool) $bestFit;
        return $this;
    }
    /**
     * Method changes behaviour of filter.
     * Filter either just resizes image (false)
     * or resizes with keeping ratio and crop to best fit given width and height (true)
     * If true ommits self::$_bestFit attribute!
     *
     * @param  bool $crop
     * @return Jpl_Filter_File_Image_Thumbnail
     */
    public function setCrop( $crop = false ) {
        $this->_crop = (bool) $crop;
        return $this;
    }
    /**
     * Method filters given file - makes thumb
     *
     * @param  string   $file   path to file
     * @return string   name of file
     */
    public function filter( $file ) {
        $im = new IMagick( $file );
        if ( $this->_crop ) {
            $im->cropThumbnailImage(
                $this->_width,
                $this->_height
            );
        } else {
            $im->thumbnailImage(
                $this->_width,
                $this->_height,
                $this->_bestFit
            );
        }
        $im->writeImage( $file );
    }
}

Answer 2

You can use GD library to export the images, not in the .ico format but a .bmp will be ok. With Imagick it seems you can do directly .ico files.