How To Resize And Compress Image In Laravel 8

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to resize image in laravel ? It is pretty simple and easy. For doing it i will use image intervention package. we will use intervention/image package for resize or resize image in laravel.

In this tutorial i will discuss step by step that laravel 7 image resize. It is very important to resize image in laravel before it upload in the server. Because resize image makes our site more faster.

Intervention provide a resize function that will take a three parameters. three parameters are width, height and callback function. callback function is a optional.

So here i write step by step tutorial of image resize in laravel 8. So just follow bellow step to create laravel intervention image compression.

Step 1: Install Laravel App

So run bellow command and get clean fresh laravel 5.8 application.

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel image-resize

Step 2: Install Intervention Image

Now we have to install intervention/image for resize image. This package through we can generate thumbnail image for our project. So first fire bellow command to get intervention package in your laravel project.

composer require intervention/image

Now we need to add provider path and alias path in config/app.php file so open that file and add bellow code.

config/app.php

return [

    $provides => [

        'Intervention\Image\ImageServiceProvider'

    ],

    $aliases => [

        'Image' => 'Intervention\Image\Facades\Image'

    ]

]

Read Also: Laravel 7 Image Upload Tutorial with Validation

In this step we will add routes and controller file so first add bellow route in your routes.php file.

routes/web.php

Route::get('resizeImage', 'ImageController@resizeImage');
Route::post('resizeImagePost', 'ImageController@resizeImagePost')->name('resizeImagePost');

Step 3: Create Controller File

Now require to create new ImageController for image uploading and resizeing image so first run bellow command :

php artisan make:controller ImageController

After this command you can find ImageController.php file in your app/Http/Controllers directory. open ImageController.php file and put bellow code in that file.

app/Http/Controllers/ImageController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
   
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use Image;
class ImageController extends Controller
{
  
    public function resizeImage()
    {
        return view('resizeImage');
    }
  
  
    public function resizeImagePost(Request $request)
    {
        $this->validate($request, [
            'title' => 'required',
            'image' => 'required|image|mimes:jpeg,png,jpg,gif,svg|max:2048',
        ]);
  
        $image = $request->file('image');
        $input['imagename'] = time().'.'.$image->getClientOriginalExtension();
     
        $destinationPath = public_path('/thumbnail');
        $img = Image::make($image->getRealPath());
        $img->resize(100, 100, function ($constraint) {
            $constraint->aspectRatio();
        })->save($destinationPath.'/'.$input['imagename']);
   
        $destinationPath = public_path('/images');
        $image->move($destinationPath, $input['imagename']);
   
        $this->postImage->add($input);
   
        return back()
            ->with('success','Image Upload successful')
            ->with('imageName',$input['imagename']);
    }
   
}

Step 4: Blade and Create Upload directory

Ok, in this last step we will create resizeImage.blade.php file for photo upload form and manage error message and also success message. So first create resizeImage.blade.php file and put bellow code:

resources/views/resizeImage.blade.php

Ok, at last create two directory in your public folder (1)images and (2)thumbnail and please give permission to that folder and check. Now time to check. Hope it will work for you.