I built Cloudflare Images in PHP (to scale & compress images)

Prefer to read instead of watch? Here you go! https://aaronfrancis.com/2025/a-cookieless-cache-friendly-image-proxy-in-laravel-inspired-by-cloudflare-9e95f7e0. In this video I built a very basic version of Cloudflare's image proxy that we use on our various sites, like highperformancesqlite.com. It's a single controller in our Laravel application! Cloudflare Images: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/cloudflare-images/ Intervention: https://image.intervention.io/v3 Follow me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondfrancis Website: https://aaronfrancis.com - find articles, podcasts, courses, and more. Chapters: 00:00 - What we’re building: Cloudflare-style image transforms in Laravel 00:59 - Defining the route with dynamic options and path 02:41 - Writing regex constraints for the route 03:56 - Creating the image controller 05:01 - Verifying the image exists 06:40 - Installing and using Intervention Image 07:15 - Parsing the options from the URL 08:45 - Transforming options into a usable array 09:13 - Scaling and manipulating the image 10:00 - Supporting format and quality options 11:58 - Encoding the image with format and quality 13:17 - Returning the image with proper headers 14:49 - Adding cache-control headers for CDN caching 15:59 - Preventing cookies from disabling CDN caching 18:59 - Creating middleware to strip cookies 20:56 - Implementing simple rate limiting 22:32 - Gracefully handling rate limit errors 24:07 - Wrapping up: why this approach works for us