CodeIgniter Longpic - image thumbnail library

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I just posted an update to Longpic. Longpic eats URLs to pages on sites like twitpic.com which are commonly linked on twitter feeds, and returns image thumbnails. I wrote it to let me create more attractive twitter feeds in a CI app by easily including thumbnails of links.

Usage as follows:

Code:

$this->load->library('longpic');
$this->longpic->thumbnail($someurl);

This returns the URL to the thumbnail of the image being linked to. If no image is found it returns FALSE.

This works even if the link was a short.to or bit.ly style URL thanks to the LongUrl.org project. In fact you can also extract the original URL from a shortened url by doing this:

Code:

$this->longpic->lengthen($someurl);

Source and stuff at http://github.com/eeatdd/Longpic/tree/master.