imagecreatefromstring()

imagecreatefromstring - Create a new image from the image stream in the string

Syntax

resource imagecreatefromstring (string $data)

Arguments

• data - A string containing the image data.

Description

imagecreatefromstring() returns an image identifier representing the image obtained from the given data. These types will be automatically detected if your build of PHP supports them: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, and GD2.

Version

PHP 4.0.4, 5

Return value

An image resource will be returned on success. FALSE 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.