Save base64 image to specific location on server using PHP

Asked Mar 21 '17 at 15:17

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I have an uploading the image using the camera to the server. Till now, I have succeeded in capturing the image, encoding it to base64 and then saving the String to Database.

I am aware of the fact that saving base64 encoded String into the database is not a good idea at all. It eats up space unnecessarily.

Can anyone help me in achieving the following?

I want to store physical image to "http://my_website.com/images/saved_images/image_name.jpg"
Please note that "image_name" will be dynamic based on the record id, which is AUTOINCREMENT.

I am able to decode the image successfully using the below code.

$imageString = "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgAB..."; // My image encoded base64 String.

$data = base64_decode($imageString);

$im = imagecreatefromstring($data);
if ($im !== false) {
    header('Content-Type: image/jpg');
    imagepng($im);
    imagedestroy($im);
}
else {
    echo 'An error occurred.';
}

How to define the target location and create the image?

asked Mar 21 '17 at 15:17

Mohammed Akhtar Zuberi

Please read [the documentation](http://php.net/imagepng) for imagepng. – Jonnix Mar 21 '17 at 15:18
Something like this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1413753/creating-an-image-in-php-display-works-saving-to-file-does-not – Richard Housham Mar 21 '17 at 15:20
I think this will work. Let me check and revert. – Mohammed Akhtar Zuberi Mar 21 '17 at 15:22
Worked. Thank you! – Mohammed Akhtar Zuberi Mar 21 '17 at 15:26

Save base64 image to specific location on server using PHP

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