resize or crop base64 images using php - php

Question

I'm uploading images from the pc to a server using this php code
$ImageToLoad=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['image_attached']);
if($ImageToLoad){
$token=$token;//variable
$ImageToLoad = str_replace('data:image/png;base64,', '', $ImageToLoad);
$ImageToLoad = str_replace('data:image/jpeg;base64,', '', $ImageToLoad);
$ImageToLoad = str_replace(' ', '+', $ImageToLoad);
$fileData = base64_decode($ImageToLoad);
$destino_path="/images/$token/image.png";
file_put_contents($destino_path, $fileData);
}
It works ok.
PROBLEM
I need to know how to resize it/crop them before to store the image in the server. Otherwise it keeps the same size (problem when huge image)

Answer 1

Resizing images can be is a costly operation and should be handled by a specialized library. In the past, the default pointer was ImageMagick's Imagick::resizeImage. However, this package does not work for everybody and other solutions have emerged in the meantime.
I suggest gumlet's php-image-resize. Resizing a base64 encoded image can be as simple as that:
$image = ImageResize::createFromString(base64_decode('R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAQCBP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw=='));
$image->scale(50);
$image->save('image.jpg');

Answer 2

If we want to create a temp image from an image file for resizing, we can use
imagecreatefromjpeg($filename);
or
imagecreatefrompng($filename);
If we want to create a temp image from blob we can use
imagecreatefromstring($blob);
imagecreatefromstring()
So, give this a try:
<?php
$filename = 'folder_name/resized_image.png'; // output file name
$im = imagecreatefromstring($fileData);
$source_width = imagesx($im);
$source_height = imagesy($im);
$ratio = $source_height / $source_width;
$new_width = 300; // assign new width to new resized image
$new_height = $ratio * 300;
$thumb = imagecreatetruecolor($new_width, $new_height);
$transparency = imagecolorallocatealpha($thumb, 255, 255, 255, 127);
imagefilledrectangle($thumb, 0, 0, $new_width, $new_height, $transparency);
imagecopyresampled($thumb, $im, 0, 0, 0, 0, $new_width, $new_height, $source_width, $source_height);
imagepng($thumb, $filename, 9);
imagedestroy($im);
?>