It's not very hard, here's a possibility that requires you to have pillow <https://pillow.readthedocs.org/> installed.
auth.settings.extra_fields['auth_user'] = [ Field('photo', 'upload', label=T('Photo'), uploadseparate=True, requires =[IS_EMPTY_OR(IS_IMAGE(error_message=T('This is not an image.'))), IS_LENGTH (maxsize=1048576)]), Field('avatar','upload', uploadseparate=True, readable=False, writable= False, autodelete=True, compute=lambda row: SMARTHUMB('auth_user', row.photo , (32, 32), name='avatar')), ] def upload_fullpath(tablename, filename, makedirs=False): """ Given a tablename and a filename return the full path TODO: For now it assumes uploadseparate=True in the field definition, could be more versatile. """ import os from gluon import current fieldname, img_uid = filename.split('.')[1:3] path = os.path.join(current.request.folder, 'uploads', tablename + '.' + fieldname, img_uid[:2], filename) if makedirs: try: os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(path)) except OSError: print "Skipping creation of %s because it exists already." % os. path.dirname(path) return path def SMARTHUMB(tablename, image, box, fit=True, name="thumbnail"): """ Downsample the image. http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1522/generate-a-thumbnail-that-fits-in-a-box Modified to respect uploadseparate=True differences @param img: Image - an Image-object @param box: tuple(x, y) - the bounding box of the result image @param fit: boolean - crop the image to fill the box """ if image: from PIL import Image import os from gluon.tools import current, web2py_uuid request = current.request img = Image.open(upload_fullpath(tablename, image)) #preresize image with factor 2, 4, 8 and fast algorithm factor = 1 while img.size[0] / factor > 2 * box[0] and img.size[1] * 2 / factor > 2 * box[1]: factor *= 2 if factor > 1: img.thumbnail((img.size[0] / factor, img.size[1] / factor), Image.ANTIALIAS) #calculate the cropping box and get the cropped part if fit: x1 = y1 = 0 x2, y2 = img.size wRatio = 1.0 * x2 / box[0] hRatio = 1.0 * y2 / box[1] if hRatio > wRatio: y1 = int(y2 / 2 - box[1] * wRatio / 2) y2 = int(y2 / 2 + box[1] * wRatio / 2) else: x1 = int(x2 / 2 - box[0] * hRatio / 2) x2 = int(x2 / 2 + box[0] * hRatio / 2) img = img.crop((x1, y1, x2, y2)) #Resize the image with best quality algorithm ANTI-ALIAS img = img.resize(box, Image.ANTIALIAS) root, ext = os.path.splitext(image) thumbname = '%s.%s.%s.%s%s' % (tablename, name, web2py_uuid(). replace('-', '')[-16:], web2py_uuid().replace('-', '')[-16:], ext) img.save(upload_fullpath(tablename, thumbname, makedirs=True)) return thumbname -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.