Entries Tagged as ‘PHP

Change ExpressionEngine Image Sizer Plugin to Crop From the Top

Change ExpressionEngine Image Sizer Plugin to Crop From the Top

For those of you that don’t know, ExpressionEngine’s ImageSizer Plugin is awesome. Anytime you have a client that will be uploading content images to a site that need to be certain dimensions this plugin is crucial. It will dynamically resize the image to whatever dimensions you need, and even cache the resized image for you. Also, if you specify a width and a height for the image in the plugin parameters, and the source’s dimensions are different, it will even crop the image for you. This is great, but it also has a downside.

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Getting the ExpressionEngine Member List to Display Custom Member Fields

Getting the ExpressionEngine Member List to Display Custom Member Fields

Back when I was working with ExpressionEngine on the NIC Indy website, I needed to display custom member data fields in the member directory list. I actually found it quite surprising that ExpressionEngine didn’t already have an option that allowed you to do this. After some fiddling around with the “memberlist” function, I found a pretty quick and simple way to make this happen.

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