I have a base64 encoded png, how do I write the image to a file in PHP?

gd, php, png

Solution

My best guess is that you simply need to call `base64_decode()` on `$_REQUEST['data']` before writing it to the file. That should be plenty enough :).

Problem

What's the proper way in PHP to create an image file (PNG), when I have the base64 encoding? I've been playing around with: ``` file_put_contents('/tmp/'. $_REQUEST['id'].'.png', $_REQUEST['data']); ``` do I need to decode? should I be using the gd library?

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