imagecreatefrompng() Makes a black background instead of transparent?

if the code of the correct answer don't work try this :

    //After imagecreatetruecolor():
$white = imagecolorallocate($dimg, 255, 255, 255); 
imagefill($dimg,0,0,$white); 

The order of operations is important. for .gif images i found that i needed to copy resized image first, then assign the black background as transparent. for PNGs I found the code below resized images and kept the transparency backgrounds.

also, this code worked for me...

$resized_image = imagecreatetruecolor($target_width, $target_height);
switch ( $asset->a_mime_type )
{
    case 'image/jpeg':
        imagecopyresampled($resized_image, $source, 0, 0, 0, 0, $target_width, $target_height, $asset->a_image_width, $asset->a_image_height);
        $r = imagejpeg($resized_image,$file_name);
        break;
    case 'image/png':
        imagealphablending($resized_image, FALSE);
        imagesavealpha($resized_image, TRUE);
        imagecopyresampled($resized_image, $source, 0, 0, 0, 0, $target_width, $target_height, $asset->a_image_width, $asset->a_image_height);
        $r = @imagepng($resized_image,$file_name);
        break;
    case 'image/gif':
        imagecopyresampled($resized_image, $source, 0, 0, 0, 0, $target_width, $target_height, $asset->a_image_width, $asset->a_image_height);
        $background = imagecolorallocate($resized_image, 0, 0, 0); 
        imagecolortransparent($resized_image, $background);
        $r = @imagegif($resized_image,$file_name);
        break;
}

After imagecreatetruecolor():

<?php

// ... Before imagecreatetruecolor()

$dimg = imagecreatetruecolor($width_new, $height_new); // png ?: gif

// start changes
switch ($stype) {

    case 'gif':
    case 'png':
        // integer representation of the color black (rgb: 0,0,0)
        $background = imagecolorallocate($dimg , 0, 0, 0);
        // removing the black from the placeholder
        imagecolortransparent($dimg, $background);

        // turning off alpha blending (to ensure alpha channel information
        // is preserved, rather than removed (blending with the rest of the
        // image in the form of black))
        imagealphablending($dimg, false);

        // turning on alpha channel information saving (to ensure the full range
        // of transparency is preserved)
        imagesavealpha($dimg, true);
        break;

    default:
        break;
}
// end changes

$wm = $w/$nw;
$hm = $h/$nh;

// ...