How to remove image cropping in Opencart 3.x?

Question

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Good afternoon forum users! I ran into a problem with images in Opencart. Opencart always asks for image size when uploading. I would like to remove this functionality. Because the pictures that I upload are of different sizes and fixed height and width eliminate the possibility of adaptability. In addition, if I load an image of 200x180 in a 200x200 field, it will fill the empty spaces with white, which is very undesirable.
How opencart gives:

How it should be:

In general, how to remove the width and height of the image everywhere?

Answer 1

1. Option
Search and remove in all controllers where you need to remove resize:
2. Option
Fix the resize logic in system/library/image.php
If I'm not mistaken, you will only need to replace:
on the
Then he will simply scale the picture to the desired size on one of the sides. Test and tweak for yourself.
Option 2 is preferable. Because Not resizing images at all is a bad idea. You will have very heavy category pages, etc.