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⚙️ A modern maintained fork of the original Intervention Image Cache package. 🚧 The original package has been abandoned, so this version focuses on maintaining stability and compatibility with modern PHP and Laravel versions.

⚠️ Important Notes

⚠️ CAUTION: This package is currently unstable, as it still depends on the original intervention/image package for certain configurations (like the config path).

📦 Overview

Intervention Image Cache extends the core Intervention Image functionality by adding powerful caching capabilities for optimized image handling.

It integrates seamlessly with Illuminate/Cache — making it easy to use with the Laravel Framework. Depending on your cache configuration, it supports:

• 🗂️ Filesystem
• 🧠 Database
• ⚡ Memcached
• 🔥 Redis

💡 How it works: Each image manipulation is tracked and cached. If the same sequence of operations is requested again, the cached result is returned instead of processing the image again — saving time and resources.

🚀 Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require softlancerin/image-cache:dev-master

Once installed, make sure to include Composer’s autoload file if not already:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

⚡ Laravel Integration

To use Intervention Image Cache with Laravel, register the Service Provider and Facade in your config/app.php file.

Add to the providers array:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Intervention\Image\ImageServiceProvider::class,
],

That’s it! 🎉 You can now use the Image facade for caching operations within your Laravel application.

🧩 Usage Example

Use the static method Image::cache() to perform image operations with automatic caching.

Basic Example

use Intervention\Image\Facades\Image;

$img = Image::cache(function($image) {
    return $image->make('public/foo.jpg')->resize(300, 200)->greyscale();
});

With Cache Lifetime

You can define the cache lifetime (in minutes) and optionally return an Image object instead of a stream.

$img = Image::cache(function($image) {
    return $image->make('public/foo.jpg')->resize(300, 200)->greyscale();
}, 10, true);

🌐 Server Configuration (Nginx Example)

If you’re using Nginx and have static resource caching enabled, make sure to exclude your cache directory (defined in your config, e.g., /cache) from static caching:

# Exclude "cache" directory from static caching
location ~* ^\/(?!cache).*\.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc|webp|woff|woff2)$ {
    expires max;
    access_log off;
    add_header Cache-Control "public";
}

🛠️ Handled & Supported By

🧩 This modern fork is handled and actively supported by Softlancerin — empowering open-source PHP & Laravel development with modern solutions and community-driven updates.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. Use it freely for both commercial and personal projects.

💡 Maintained By

Softlancerin Innovations — modernizing PHP packages for the developer community. ⭐ Feel free to star this repo if you find it helpful!