imagecrop() is an inbuilt function in PHP that is used to crop an image to the given rectangle. It crops the image from the given rectangle area and returns the output image.The given image is not modified.
Syntax
resource imagecrop ($image, $rect)
Parameters
imagecrop() takes two parameters, $image and $rect.
$image − It is the parameter returned by the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor(). It is used to create the size of an image.
$rect − The cropping rectangle is an array with keys X, Y, width, and height.
Return Values
imagecrop() returns the cropped image resource on success or it returns false on failure.
Example
<?php
// It will create an image from the given image
$img = imagecreatefrompng('C:\xampp\htdocs\Images\img34.png');
// This will find the size of the image
$size = min(imagesx($img), imagesy($img));
//This will set the size of the cropped image.
$img2 = imagecrop($img, ['x' => 0, 'y' => 0, 'width' => 500, 'height' => 320]);
if($img2 !== FALSE) {
imagepng($img2, 'C:\xampp\htdocs\pic_cropped.png');
imagedestroy($img2);
}
imagedestroy($img);
?>Output
Input image before using imagecrop() function
Output image after using imagecrop() function
Example 2
<?php
//load an image from the local drive folder.
$filename = 'C:\xampp\htdocs\Images\img34.png';
$img = imagecreatefrompng($filename );
$ini_x_size = getimagesize($filename)[0];
$ini_y_size = getimagesize($filename )[1];
//the minimum of xlength and ylength to crop.
$crop_measure = min($ini_x_size, $ini_y_size);
// Set the content-type header
//header('Content-Type: image/png');
$crop_array = array('x' =>0 , 'y' => 0, 'width' => $crop_measure, 'height'=>
$crop_measure);
$thumb_img = imagecrop($img, $crop_array);
imagejpeg($thumb_img, 'thumb.png', 100);
?>Output
