Silverstripe Dominant Color

Utilises the Color Thief PHP library to extract the dominant color from an image.

This can be particularly useful for setting the background color of lazy-loaded images or for styling accompanying HTML markup.

Requirements

• Silverstripe 4 or 5
• PHP >= 7.2 or >= PHP 8.0
• Supports JPEG, PNG, GIF and WEBP images.

Installation via Composer

composer require heyday/silverstripe-dominantcolor

Usage

Adds the DominantColor() method to the Image class which returns the dominant color of an image in hex format #bada55

<div style="background-color: $Image.DominantColor">

Image::get()->find(…)->DominantColor();