this is my first question and I'm planning to hang around in this forum. I'm very new to programming since I'm studying but I'm making great progress. So, with this in mind I'll try to be as detailed as possible.
The project I am working with is about creating a png-image using GD PHP. The script recieves data, calculates image WIDTH/HEIGHT according to these. From this data I then print out pixels on the image in different spots. Everything works great, it displays the image and saves it on the server, there's nothing wrong with that. But when I run the script, it outputs the image to the browser. I don't want that. I just want the script to process the image and save it to the server. I have searched plenty but haven't found anything about it.
Code for creating the image: I have to remove some code though, but it's not needed to answer my question. I suspect it's something with the header and imagecreatetruecolor. This is all the data I can give.
<?php
//Some calculations before
// --- START: CREATE IMAGE ---
$png = imagecreatetruecolor($WIDTH, $HEIGHT);
imagesavealpha($png, true);
$trans_colour = imagecolorallocatealpha($png, 0, 0, 0, 127);
imagefill($png, 0, 0, $trans_colour);
//Here's just a loop to print pixels
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($png);
save($png); //Function used for saving
//Erase from memory
imagedestroy($png);
?>
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So I'm looking to create an internal tool where our employees can upload a picture of themselves, which automatically merges it with a white border at the bottom (company logo border) and their name on top of it. This way the offices can easily print the pictures for employee boards
So what I need is:
- merge border, picture and text into one image.
- Upload function with crop tool.
What I found is:
- PHP Image Magician (http://phpimagemagician.jarrodoberto.com/)
This basically has all functions I need available so naturally I got excited but I ran across one thing:
In the 14.1_upload.php file it refers to the following:
require_once('image_lib/upload_class.php');
the image_lib/upload_cass.php file doesnt come with the download from the website.
Is there something I'm missing or would you guys recommend not to use PHP Image Magician at all?
I'm looking to make it a very basic and simple tool but functional.
Thanks a bunch in advance
Uploading Image is a very easy process, you can use W3School reference to understand it well http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp
About Image merge you can use below code:
<?php
$dest = imagecreatefrompng('vinyl.png');
$src = imagecreatefromjpeg('cover2.jpg');
imagealphablending($dest, false);
imagesavealpha($dest, true);
imagecopymerge($dest, $src, 10, 9, 0, 0, 181, 180, 100); //have to play with these numbers for it to work for you, etc.
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($dest);
imagedestroy($dest);
imagedestroy($src);
?>
UPDATE:
now I learned more I looked alot and modified I got this:
function show_image($image, $new_width, $new_height) {
//$this->helper('file'); why need this?
//$image_content = read_file($image); We does not want to use this as output.
list($old_width,$old_height) = getimagesize("$image");
//resize image
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($image);
$thumbImage = imagecreatetruecolor($new_width, $new_height);
imagecopyresized($thumbImage, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $new_width, $new_height, $old_width, $old_height);
imagedestroy($image);
//imagedestroy($thumbImage); do not destroy before display :)
ob_end_clean(); // clean the output buffer ... if turned on.
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
imagejpeg($thumbImage); //you does not want to save.. just display
imagedestroy($thumbImage); //but not needed, cause the script exit in next line and free the used memory
exit;
}
when using this function I get a file, but I need to get a URL
I wanna be able to use:
<img src=" ... ">
Since you can't use GD on the server, a good option might be to handle it on the client side.
One idea that comes to mind is loading the image into an html5 canvas, and using that to manipulate the image characteristics before uploading it to the server.
This post talks about how you'd go about uploading image data straight from a canvas and saving it as an image on your server.
How to save a HTML5 Canvas as an image on a server
You also will likely need to take a look at the JavaScript File API to load the image into the canvas on the client side.
It's not necessarily an easy solution, but it might be your best shot without access to GD and stuff.
I'm fairly new to php but I'm trying to send an image to a buffer or some sort of temporary place where I can access later. The script I'm calling merges a bunch of images into one, then displays that image (see it in action here - change query parameters to change image). Here's a piece of my code so you have an idea of how that's happening:
$dest = imagecreatefrompng($img0);
$src12 = imagecreatefrompng($img12);
imagecolortransparent($src12, imagecolorat($src12, 0, 0));
//copy and merge
$src12_x = imagesx($src12);
$src12_y = imagesy($src12);
imagecopymerge($dest, $src12, 0, 0, 0, 0, $src12_x, $src12_y, 100);
// Output and free from memory
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($dest);
imagedestroy($dest);
imagedestroy($src);
However, this is an external script so I'd like to be able to pull that image from another page. I'm not sure what the best way to do it is... temporarily store it or pass the image back through. The one constraint is that the image has to exist before the content of the parent page is loaded. How can I make this happen?
If I understand correctly what you mean;
1) You want to pull the image from another website and save it to disk, you can do this;
file_put_contents("img.png", file_get_contents("URL-TO-IMAGE"));
2) You want to just display it? As the URL aboves headers are to display an image, you can put it right into an IMG tag.
<img src="URL-TO-IMAGE">
I have a fairly basic PHP script used to generate an image by combining several files, using variables stored in the URL, into one. For ease of explanation, here it is:
<?php
$images = array( $_GET['item1'], $_GET['item2'], $_GET['item3'] );
// Allocate new image
$img = imagecreatetruecolor(480, 480);
// Make alpha channels work
imagealphablending($img, true);
imagesavealpha($img, true);
foreach($images as $fn) {
// Load image
$cur = imagecreatefrompng($fn);
imagealphablending($cur, true);
imagesavealpha($cur, true);
// Copy over image
imagecopy($img, $cur, 0, 0, 0, 0, 480, 480);
// Free memory
imagedestroy($cur);
}
header('Content-Type: image/png'); // Comment out this line to see PHP errors
imagepng($img);
?>
No issue with that.
I don't really understand what to do with this now though. I would like to download this to the client's downloads folder but I am unaware of and cannot find any methods for this.
I do not particularly need someone to do this for me, but just a push in the right direction for resources on doing this.
I know how to do this by temporary storing that file as a .png on my server and directing the user to a download link for that but that seems like the long way around this.
Any help please?
-Tim
You should save your code within a php file i.e. image.php. If a user calls this file passing valid arguments like this
www.example.com/image.php?item1=bild1.png&item2=bild2.png&item3=bild3.png
the file will be displayed within the browser (you don't have to save it on server side). To force a download of the image add an additional header:
header('Content-Disposition: Attachment;filename=image.png');
I've been trying to get transparency to work with my application (which dynamically resizes images before storing them) and I think I've finally narrowed down the problem after much misdirection about imagealphablending and imagesavealpha. The source image is never loaded with proper transparency!
// With this line, the output image has no transparency (where it should be
// transparent, colors bleed out randomly or it's completely black, depending
// on the image)
$img = imagecreatefromstring($fileData);
// With this line, it works as expected.
$img = imagecreatefrompng($fileName);
// Blah blah blah, lots of image resize code into $img2 goes here; I finally
// tried just outputting $img instead.
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagealphablending($img, FALSE);
imagesavealpha($img, TRUE);
imagepng($img);
imagedestroy($img);
It would be some serious architectural difficulty to load the image from a file; this code is being used with a JSON API that gets queried from an iPhone app, and it's easier in this case (and more consistent) to upload images as base64-encoded strings in the POST data. Do I absolutely need to somehow store the image as a file (just so that PHP can load it into memory again)? Is there maybe a way to create a Stream from $fileData that can be passed to imagecreatefrompng?
you can use this code :
$new = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
// preserve transparency
imagecolortransparent($new, imagecolorallocatealpha($new, 0, 0, 0, 127));
imagealphablending($new, false);
imagesavealpha($new, true);
imagecopyresampled($new, $img, 0, 0, $x, 0, $width, $height, $w, $h);
imagepng($new);
imagedestroy($new);
It will make a transparent image for you. Good Luck !
Blech, this turned out to ultimately be due to a totally separate GD call which was validating the image uploads. I forgot to add imagealphablending and imagesavealpha to THAT code, and it was creating a new image that then got passed to the resizing code. Which should probably be changed anyway. Thanks very much to goldenparrot for the excellent method of converting a string into a filename.
Do I absolutely need to somehow store the image as a file (just so that PHP can load it into memory again)?
No.
Documentation says:
You can use data:// protocol from php v5.2.0
Example:
// prints "I love PHP"
echo file_get_contents('data://text/plain;base64,SSBsb3ZlIFBIUAo=');