php take image, rotate and save rotated image on server - php

Question

Want to take image from own server rotate certain angle and save the image.
Image file $filename = 'kitten_rotated.jpg'; With echo '<img src='.$filename.'>'; i see the image.
Then
$original = imagecreatefromjpeg($filename);
$angle = 90.0;
$rotated = imagerotate($original, $angle, 0);
Based on this https://stackoverflow.com/a/3693075/2118559 answer trying create image file
$output = 'google.com.jpg';
If i save the same image with new file name, all works
file_put_contents( $output, file_get_contents($filename) );
But if i try to save rotated image, then file_put_contents(): supplied resource is not a valid stream resource.
file_put_contents( $output, $rotated );
Here https://stackoverflow.com/a/12185462/2118559 read $export is going to be a GD image handle. It is NOT something you can simply dump out to a file and expect to get a JPG or PNG image.. but can not understand how to use the code in that answer.
How to create image file from $rotated?
Tried to experiment, based on this http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatefromstring.php
$fh = fopen( 'some_name.png' , 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $data );
fclose($fh);
Does it means that need something like
$data = base64_encode($rotated);
And then write in new file?

Answer 1

I have not tested this, but I think you need to encode the image as base 64 first.
If you check the string from any Image URL, you'd see data:image/png;base64, preceding the hash. Prepending this to your image string and saving.

Answer 2

Here is a function that may help, based on what you already have:
// Function settings:
// 1) Original file
// 2) Angle to rotate
// 3) Output destination (false will output to browser)
function RotateJpg($filename = '',$angle = 0,$savename = false)
{
// Your original file
$original = imagecreatefromjpeg($filename);
// Rotate
$rotated = imagerotate($original, $angle, 0);
// If you have no destination, save to browser
if($savename == false) {
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
imagejpeg($rotated);
}
else
// Save to a directory with a new filename
imagejpeg($rotated,$savename);
// Standard destroy command
imagedestroy($rotated);
}
// Base image
$filename = 'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/JPEG_example_JPG_RIP_100.jpg';
// Destination, including document root (you may have a defined root to use)
$saveto = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/images/test.jpg";
// Apply function
RotateJpg($filename,90,$saveto);

Answer 3

If you want to save image just use one of GD library functions: imagepng() or imagepng().
imagerotate() returns image resource so this is not something like string.
In your case just save rotate image:
imagejpg($rotated, $output);
And now You can use $output variable as your new filename to include in view like before:
echo '<img src='.$output.'>';
Don't forget to include appropriate permissions in directory where You're saveing image.