I have in base64 encoded string in a $_POST field $_POST['nimage']
if I echo it directly as the src value in an img
tag, i see the image just fine in browser: echo "<img src='".$_POST['nimage']."'>";
Now, I'm obviously missing a step, because when I base64_decode
the string and write it to a file locally on the server, an attempt to view the created file in browser states error:
"The image 'xxxx://myserversomewhere.com/images/img1.jpg' cannot be displayed because it contains errors"
My decode and file put are:
$file = base64_decode($_POST['nimage']);
file_put_contents('images/'. $_POST['imgname'], $file);
which results in images/img1.jpg
on the local server. What am I doing wrong in the decode here? Although the base64 output doesn't appear to be URLencoded I have tried urldecode() on it first before base64_decode() just for safe measure with same results.
First few lines of the base64 encode is:
data:image/jpeg;base64,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
The data you're decoding has a data URI header attached:
The header is use by the browser to identify the file type and encoding, but isn't part of the encoded data.
Strip the header (
data:image/jpeg;base64,
) from the data and base64 decode the rest before writing it to a file: you should be good to go.NB: Check the return value of your call to
base64_decode()
forfalse
and abort somehow with a message. It will trap any problems with the decoding process (like not removing the header!).