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with this you can encode any image to store it in a database or similar
<?php
// function to encode the image
// returns the image as base64 encoded string
function encode_img($img)
{
$fd = fopen ($img, 'rb');
$size=filesize ($img);
$cont = fread ($fd, $size);
fclose ($fd);
$encimg = base64_encode($cont);
return $encimg;
}
// use this to split the code into managable pieces
// if you want to save the string to a file
$imgcode = chunk_split($encimg,20,'\'.
\'');
// function to display the image
function display_img($imgcode,$type)
{
header('Content-type: image/'.$type);
header('Content-length: '.size($imgcode));
echo base64_decode($imgcode);
}
// use like
encode_img('path/to/image.gif'); // to encode the image
display_img($imgcode,'gif'); // to show the image
?>
learn more about some of the PHP functions used in this snippet: base64_decode, base64_encode, chunk_split, echo, fclose, file, filesize, fopen, fread, function, header, return, save, split
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