image handling

base64 image encode

with this you can encode any image to store it in a database or similar

function encode_img( ) [ line 4 ]

function display_img( ) [ line 18 ]

full source of base64 image encode [ line 1 - 27 ] | download base64 image encode

1	<?php
2	// function to encode the image
3	// returns the image as base64 encoded string
4	function encode_img($img)
5	{
6	$fd = fopen ($img, 'rb');
7	$size=filesize ($img);
8	$cont = fread ($fd, $size);
9	fclose ($fd);
10	$encimg = base64_encode($cont);
11	return $encimg;
12	}
13	// use this to split the code into managable pieces
14	// if you want to save the string to a file
15	$imgcode = chunk_split($encimg,20,''.
16	'');
17	// function to display the image
18	function display_img($imgcode,$type)
19	{
20	header('Content-type: image/'.$type);
21	header('Content-length: '.size($imgcode));
22	echo base64_decode($imgcode);
23	}
24	// use like
25	encode_img('path/to/image.gif'); // to encode the image
26	display_img($imgcode,'gif'); // to show the image
27	?>

16 hits by 9 users in the last 30 minutes.