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<h1 class="refname">imagecreatefromstring</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">imagecreatefromstring</span> — <span class="dc-title">Create a new image from the image stream in the string</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatefromstring-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>imagecreatefromstring</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$image</code></span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
<span class="function"><strong>imagecreatefromstring()</strong></span> returns an image identifier
representing the image obtained from the given <em><code class="parameter">image</code></em>.
These types will be automatically detected if your build of PHP supports
them: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, and GD2.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatefromstring-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
<dl>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">image</code></em></span>
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<p class="para">
A string containing the image data.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatefromstring-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
An image resource will be returned on success. <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> is returned if
the image type is unsupported, the data is not in a recognised format,
or the image is corrupt and cannot be loaded.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatefromstring-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>imagecreatefromstring()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$data </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABwAAAASCAMAAAB/2U7WAAAABl'<br /> </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'BMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAASUlEQVR4XqWQUQoAIAxC2/0vXZDr'<br /> </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'EX4IJTRkb7lobNUStXsB0jIXIAMSsQnWlsV+wULF4Avk9fLq2r'<br /> </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'8a5HSE35Q3eO2XP1A1wQkZSgETvDtKdQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$data </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">base64_decode</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$data</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagecreatefromstring</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$data</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />if (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im </span><span style="color: #007700">!== </span><span style="color: #0000BB">false</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">header</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Content-Type: image/png'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagepng</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagedestroy</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />}<br />else {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'An error occurred.'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
<div class="mediaobject">
<div class="imageobject">
<img src="images/21009b70229598c6a80eef8b45bf282b-imagecreatefromstring.png" alt="Output of example : imagecreatefromstring()" width="28" height="18" />
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.imagecreatefromstring-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imagecreatefromjpeg.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imagecreatefromjpeg()</a> - Create a new image from file or URL</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imagecreatefrompng.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imagecreatefrompng()</a> - Create a new image from file or URL</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imagecreatefromgif.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imagecreatefromgif()</a> - Create a new image from file or URL</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imagecreatetruecolor.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imagecreatetruecolor()</a> - Create a new true color image</span></li>
</ul>
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