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encode any image as base64 to store it in a database or textfile.
includes function to show base64 encoded imagecode.

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<?php

/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|                             PHParadise source code
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| file:             base64 image encode
| category:         image handling
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| last modified:    Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:03:35 GMT
| downloaded:       Thu, 24 May 2012 08:22:08 GMT as copy from textarea
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| code URL:
| http://phparadise.de/php-code/image-handling/base64-image-encode/
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| description:
| encode any image as base64 to store it in a database or textfile. includes
| function to show base64 encoded imagecode.
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

// 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;
}

// function to display the image
function display_img($imgcode,$type)
{
	header('Content-type: image/'.$type);
	header('Content-length: '.strlen($imgcode));
	echo base64_decode($imgcode);
}

// use like
// specify the image to encode
$img = 'path/to/file.gif';

// encode the image
$encoded_img = encode_img($img);

// use this to split the code into managable pieces
// i.e. if you want to save the string to a file
$imgcodetosave = '\''.chunk_split($encoded_img,20,'\'.
\'').'\'';

// show the image directly
display_img($imgcode,'gif');

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