Page method to create Image variations

[thomas]

Hi everyone,

I have a site which uses a bunch of images per page and now I am about to change the template. Problem is that the first call of those pages takes forever since it creates all image variants. Is there a method to iterate over all those pages and create the images or would I have to create a hook for that? Problem is that the actual size of those images is calculated individually in the template so I would either have to duplicate the logic in this hook or parse the templates which I wouldn't know how ...

Anyone got an idea?

Thanks!

[BillH]

I haven't tried (and so could easily be wrong!), but I think the following would work:

foreach ($pages->find("template=template_name") as $page) {
    ob_start();
    $page->render();
    ob_end_clean();
}

The output buffering is to stop the pages rendering in the browser.

It'd probably be easiest to put the code in a template file.