Help using CGSmartImage - i should know, but don't.

[pwg]

Hi,

Another silly question, this time about using CGSmartImage in my templates.

Previously I have manually resized images prior to uploading and have been happy (enough) for thumbnails to be compressed by the browser, as i figured the images would then be cached and the detail page load quicker.

However i'd like to start using CGSmartImage as expecting clients to resize accurately is too much.

My summary template contains

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 {if $field->type == 'file'}
          <img src="{$entry->file_location}/{$field->value}"/>
        {else}
<a href="{$entry->detail_url}" title="{$entry->title|cms_escape:htmlall}">{eval var=$field->value}</a>
        {/if}

How do I code it so that I'm adding something like {CGSmartImage notag="1" filter_croptofit="267,400,c"} to my template?

Thanks for any help - i realise i should know this stuff - but i don't.

Cheers,

Paul

[Dr.CSS]

I've never used it but would look in the modules Help page, most likely some code in there...

[pwg]

Thanks Dr, had a good read of the help section, but I don't think I know enough to know!

[scooper]

Here's an example from a template we use that looks like the kind of thing you need (from this blog page ).

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{if $entry->fields['Featured Image']->value ne ''}
 {assign var='altText' value=$entry->fields['Image alt text']->value}
 {CGSmartImage src="`$entry->file_location`/`$entry->fields['Featured Image']->value`" filter_croptofit="170,170" alt="$altText" title="$altText"}
{else}
<img src="/lib/layout/default_170px.png" alt="">
{/if}

getting the quotes sorted can be a bit fiddly but hopefully that should get you going.

[velden]

CGSI has some nice parameters (src1 & src2) to prevent the backtick-trick:

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{CGSmartImage src1=$entry->file_location src2=$entry->fields['Featured Image']->value filter_croptofit="170,170" alt="$altText" title="$altText"}

[jack4ya]

And here I was assigning filepaths/filename combo's...
Nice to know the src1 and src2 options.