imagecreatefromstring

Description

imagecreatefromstring() returns an image identifier representing the image obtained from the given string. These types will be automatically detected if your build of PHP supports them: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, and GD2.

Return Values

An image resource will be returned on success. FALSE is returned if the image type is unsupported, the data is not in a recognised format, or the image is corrupt and cannot be loaded.

Examples

Example 1. imagecreatefromstring() example <?php $data = 'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABwAAAASCAMAAAB/2U7WAAAABl'        . 'BMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAASUlEQVR4XqWQUQoAIAxC2/0vXZDr'        . 'EX4IJTRkb7lobNUStXsB0jIXIAMSsQnWlsV+wULF4Avk9fLq2r'        . '8a5HSE35Q3eO2XP1A1wQkZSgETvDtKdQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='; $data = base64_decode($data); $im = imagecreatefromstring($data); if ($im !== false) {     header('Content-Type: image/png');     imagepng($im); } else {     echo 'An error occured.'; } ?>

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