<p>Certainly seems doable to me. And the complexity would depend on how comfortable you are with PHP.</p>

<p>But roughly you'd follow the same format as the <a href="https://github.com/fruitstudios/AviaryImageEditor" rel="nofollow">Aviary Image Editor</a> plugin for Craft where you have the user enter their imgix API key from their account and store that in the database. Then your plugin would be a wrapper for the <a href="https://docs.imgix.com/apis/url" rel="nofollow">imgix API</a> calling their web service methods whenever you need to interact with them.</p>

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2016-03-10T03:51:50.633Z
2016-03-10T03:51:50.633Z
Brad Bell
<p>I finally released a first version of the plugin: <a href="https://superbig.co/plugins/imgix" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://superbig.co/plugins/imgix</a></p>

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2017-04-03T19:47:29.933Z
2017-04-03T19:47:29.933Z
Fred Carlsen
<p>I have started using <a href="https://www.imgix.com/" rel="nofollow">imgix</a> on some non-Craft sites, and it’s bloody awesome. It’s a bit similar to Craft in the way you apply transforms to a master image, and those transforms are done on-demand and then cached for future use. Only with imgix the transforms are done in the cloud and stored on their global CDN. Now I was thinking if it might be possible to write a Craft plugin to use imgix instead of the internal image handling code.</p>

<p>Any tips/pointers on how to go about this would be most appreciated!</p>

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2016-12-13T13:03:28.107Z
I have a plugin to work with Imgix. Contact me if you want to test.
Fred Carlsen
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Writing an Craft plugin for imgix?
# Writing an Craft plugin for imgix?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-03-09)

I have started using [imgix](https://www.imgix.com/) on some non-Craft sites, and it’s bloody awesome. It’s a bit similar to Craft in the way you apply transforms to a master image, and those transforms are done on-demand and then cached for future use. Only with imgix the transforms are done in the cloud and stored on their global CDN. Now I was thinking if it might be possible to write a Craft plugin to use imgix instead of the internal image handling code.

Any tips/pointers on how to go about this would be most appreciated!

**Tags:** plugin-development

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I have a plugin to work with Imgix. Contact me if you want to test.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2016-03-10. Score: 2

Certainly seems doable to me. And the complexity would depend on how comfortable you are with PHP.

But roughly you'd follow the same format as the [Aviary Image Editor](https://github.com/fruitstudios/AviaryImageEditor) plugin for Craft where you have the user enter their imgix API key from their account and store that in the database. Then your plugin would be a wrapper for the [imgix API](https://docs.imgix.com/apis/url) calling their web service methods whenever you need to interact with them.


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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-04-03. Score: 2

I finally released a first version of the plugin: <https://superbig.co/plugins/imgix>


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