Using image_scale_and_crop in Drupal 7

3 October 2013

This snippet shows you an example of using image_scale_and_crop function to scale and crop image as in image styles.

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// Load image file entity.
$file = file_load($fid);
// Load image by uri.
$image = image_load($file->uri);
// Use Drupal's scale and crop function to do the work for you.
image_scale_and_crop($image, $scale['width'], $scale['height']);
// Save image to file, you don't need to save the file entity.
image_save($image);
Programming Language: PHP