Add author management functionality and update routing rules

- Updated .htaccess rules to allow trailing slashes for specific routes.
- Introduced a new .gitignore file to exclude the cache directory.
- Created project configuration file for Serena with language and tool settings.
- Implemented Authors class for managing author data, including methods for saving, deleting, and editing authors.
- Added factory class for Authors to handle database interactions related to authors.
- Developed Article class to manage article data and interactions, including fetching articles and updating views.
- Created Page class with a placeholder method for sorting pages.
- Added front factory class for fetching author details with caching.

autoload/class.Image.php

@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@ class ImageManipulator
      * @var resource
      */
     protected $image;
+    protected $img_src;
 
     /**
      * Image manipulator constructor
-     * 
+     *
      * @param string $file OPTIONAL Path to image file or image data as string
      * @return void
      */
@@ -26,8 +27,10 @@ class ImageManipulator
     {
         if (null !== $file) {
             if (is_file($file)) {
+                $this -> img_src = $file;
                 $this->setImageFile($file);
             } else {
+              echo 'a'; exit;
                 $this->setImageString($file);
             }
         }
@@ -35,7 +38,7 @@ class ImageManipulator
 
     /**
      * Set image resource from file
-     * 
+     *
      * @param string $file Path to image file
      * @return ImageManipulator for a fluent interface
      * @throws InvalidArgumentException
@@ -68,10 +71,10 @@ class ImageManipulator
 
         return $this;
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * Set image resource from string data
-     * 
+     *
      * @param string $data
      * @return ImageManipulator for a fluent interface
      * @throws RuntimeException
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ class ImageManipulator
      * @return ImageManipulator for a fluent interface
      * @throws RuntimeException
      */
-    public function resample($width, $height, $constrainProportions = true)
+    public function resample( $width, $height, $constrainProportions = true )
     {
         if (!is_resource($this->image)) {
             throw new RuntimeException('No image set');
@@ -111,14 +114,44 @@ class ImageManipulator
                 $height = round($width / $this->width * $this->height);
             }
         }
+
         $temp = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
+
         imagecopyresampled($temp, $this->image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, $this->width, $this->height);
+
+        if ( function_exists('exif_read_data') )
+        {
+          $exif = exif_read_data( $this -> img_src );
+          if ( $exif && isset($exif['Orientation']) )
+          {
+            $orientation = $exif['Orientation'];
+            if ( $orientation != 1 )
+            {
+              $deg = 0;
+              switch ($orientation)
+              {
+                case 3:
+                  $deg = 180;
+                break;
+                case 6:
+                  $deg = 270;
+                break;
+                case 8:
+                  $deg = 90;
+                break;
+              }
+
+              if ( $deg )
+                $temp = imagerotate( $temp, $deg, 0 );
+            }
+          }
+        }
         return $this->_replace($temp);
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * Enlarge canvas
-     * 
+     *
      * @param int   $width  Canvas width
      * @param int   $height Canvas height
      * @param array $rgb    RGB colour values
@@ -132,30 +165,30 @@ class ImageManipulator
         if (!is_resource($this->image)) {
             throw new RuntimeException('No image set');
         }
-        
+
         $width = max($width, $this->width);
         $height = max($height, $this->height);
-        
+
         $temp = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
         if (count($rgb) == 3) {
             $bg = imagecolorallocate($temp, $rgb[0], $rgb[1], $rgb[2]);
             imagefill($temp, 0, 0, $bg);
         }
-        
+
         if (null === $xpos) {
             $xpos = round(($width - $this->width) / 2);
         }
         if (null === $ypos) {
             $ypos = round(($height - $this->height) / 2);
         }
-        
+
         imagecopy($temp, $this->image, (int) $xpos, (int) $ypos, 0, 0, $this->width, $this->height);
         return $this->_replace($temp);
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * Crop image
-     * 
+     *
      * @param int|array $x1 Top left x-coordinate of crop box or array of coordinates
      * @param int       $y1 Top left y-coordinate of crop box
      * @param int       $x2 Bottom right x-coordinate of crop box
@@ -171,25 +204,25 @@ class ImageManipulator
         if (is_array($x1) && 4 == count($x1)) {
             list($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2) = $x1;
         }
-        
+
         $x1 = max($x1, 0);
         $y1 = max($y1, 0);
-        
+
         $x2 = min($x2, $this->width);
         $y2 = min($y2, $this->height);
-        
+
         $width = $x2 - $x1;
         $height = $y2 - $y1;
-        
+
         $temp = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
         imagecopy($temp, $this->image, 0, 0, $x1, $y1, $width, $height);
-        
+
         return $this->_replace($temp);
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * Replace current image resource with a new one
-     * 
+     *
      * @param resource $res New image resource
      * @return ImageManipulator for a fluent interface
      * @throws UnexpectedValueException
@@ -207,10 +240,10 @@ class ImageManipulator
         $this->height = imagesy($res);
         return $this;
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * Save current image to file
-     * 
+     *
      * @param string $fileName
      * @return void
      * @throws RuntimeException
@@ -223,7 +256,7 @@ class ImageManipulator
                 throw new RuntimeException('Error creating directory ' . $dir);
             }
         }
-        
+
         try {
             switch ($type) {
                 case IMAGETYPE_GIF  :