Developers

We love developers! We have made integrating with Elasticera incredibly easy. Frequently customers have completed the integration and gone live in less than a day.

There are two points of integration

• Uploading an image
• Generating an image URL

A webservice is used to upload an image. We provide example code for the most common programming languages, e.g. PHP, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, Perl, etc., so it couldn't be easier to upload an image.

To upload an image...

Step 1

Add the following fields to an existing table or create a new database table to hold them

• Reference
• Width
• Height

For example
 

Step 2

Use one of our example libraries to upload images.

Example PHP code to upload an image

<?php
require_once 'ITS_Upload.php';
$its = new ITS_upload();
$its->upload($url, $user, $password, $file, $params);
if($its->getStatus() == 200)
  list($reference, $width, $height) = explode(" ", $its->getBody());
?>

Step 3

Update the appropriate record within the database table with reference, width and height.

When using Elasticera the commands to transform an image are passed in the URL. For example

• http://images.mysite.com/NexTUmvuchVSXe7Y3ThHidh9lGcj.jpg?w=500

You can write your own code to generate image URLs or use one of the example libraries we provide. We provide example libraries for the most common programming languages, e.g. PHP, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, Perl, etc., so it couldn't be easier.

Example PHP code to generate an image URL

<?php
require_once 'ITS_URL.php';
$url = new ITS_URL();
$url->setServer('images.mysite.com');
$url->setReference('NexTUmvuchVSXe7Y3ThHidh9lGcj');
# Optional transformations, e.g. $url->setWidth(500);
$url->setFormat('jpg');
echo $url->generateURL();
?>

It's that simple!