Using Kohana inside Yii

Sometimes to write a custom autoloader, you need to dig into another framework's source code. An example of this is the Kohana framework. In this recipe, we will handle image resizing by using one of the Kohana classes.

Getting ready

1. Create a fresh application using yiic webapp.

2. Download the Kohana framework 3.1.5 archive from the following URL:

   http://dev.kohanaframework.org/projects/kohana3/files

   In this recipe, we have used Version 3.1.5.

3. Extract the system and modules directories to protected/vendors/Kohana.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps:

1. First, we will need the actual code that performs the image resizing and displays an image. Create protected/controllers/ImageController.php as follows:

   <?php
   class ImageController extends CController
   {
     public function actionIndex()
     {
       $image = new Image_GD(Yii::getPathOfAlias("system")."/yii-powered.png");
       $image->resize(800, 150);
       Yii::app()->request->sendFile("image.png", $image->render...