How to compress / reduce quality of base64 image with php? - php

Question

I have stored multiple images in base64 inside my database. I get images using php as image path. But I want to reduce size of my image when decoding it from base64, because it slows down my app if I load full size image. (Full size image I need just in backend).
/*
DB stuff getting base64 string from database
$img = base64 string (can be with 'data:image/jpg;base64,' in front, thats for the str_replace())
*/
if($img){
header("Content-Type: image/png");
echo base64_decode(str_replace("data:image/jpg;base64,","",$img));
}
Everything works nice this way. I use it like this:
<img src="http://example.com/getimg.php?id=4" />
or in css. I need this because of security reasons, I cant store any image on server, also in path I have access_token variable, so random person cant see images.
Is there a way to do this without storing the actual image in server?

Answer 1

You can use imagecreatefromstring and imagecopyresized.
Live example here
<?php
if ($img) {
$percent = 0.5;
// Content type
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
$data = base64_decode($img);
$im = imagecreatefromstring($data);
$width = imagesx($im);
$height = imagesy($im);
$newwidth = $width * $percent;
$newheight = $height * $percent;
$thumb = imagecreatetruecolor($newwidth, $newheight);
// Resize
imagecopyresized($thumb, $im, 0, 0, 0, 0, $newwidth, $newheight, $width, $height);
// Output
imagejpeg($thumb);
}