How to processing an image downloaded from AWS S3 with Laravel 5? - php

Question

I want download an image from AWS S3 and process it with php. I am using "imagecreatefromjpeg" and "getimagesize" to process my image but it seem that
Storage::disk('s3')->get(imageUrlonS3);
retrieve the image in binary and is giving me errors. This is my code:
function createSlices($imagePath) {
//create transform driver object
$im = imagecreatefromjpeg($imagePath);
$sizeArray = getimagesize($imagePath);
//Set the Image dimensions
$imageWidth = $sizeArray[0];
$imageHeight = $sizeArray[1];
//See how many zoom levels are required for the width and height
$widthLog = ceil(log($imageWidth/256,2));
$heightLog = ceil(log($imageHeight/256,2));
//more code here to slice the image
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}
// ex: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bucketname/image.jpg
$content = Storage::disk('s3')->get(imageUrlonS3);
createSlices($content);
What am I missing here ?
Thanks

Answer 1

I think you are right in your question what the problem is - the get method returns the source of the image of itself, not the location of the image. When you pass that to createSlices, you're passing the binary data, not its file path. Inside of createSlices you call imagecreatefromjpeg, which expects a file path, not the image itself.
If this indeed the case, you should be able to use createimagefromstring instead of createimagefromjpeg and getimagesizefromstring instead of getimagesize. The functions createimagefromstring and getimagesizefromstring each expects the binary string of the image, which I believe is what you have.
Here's the relevant documentation:
createimagefromstring - http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatefromstring.php
getimagesizefromstring - http://php.net/manual/en/function.getimagesizefromstring.php
Resulting code might look something like this:
function createSlices($imageData) {
$im = imagecreatefromstring($imageData);
$sizeArray = getimagesizefromstring($imageData);
//Everything else can probably be the same
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}
$contents = Storage::disk('s3')->get($imageUrlOnS3);
createSlices($contents);
Please note I haven't tested this, but I believe from what I can see in your question and what I read in the documentation that this might just do it.