Convert Base64 string to an image file?

maybe like this

function save_base64_image($base64_image_string, $output_file_without_extension, $path_with_end_slash="" ) {
    //usage:  if( substr( $img_src, 0, 5 ) === "data:" ) {  $filename=save_base64_image($base64_image_string, $output_file_without_extentnion, getcwd() . "/application/assets/pins/$user_id/"); }      
    //
    //data is like:    data:image/png;base64,asdfasdfasdf
    $splited = explode(',', substr( $base64_image_string , 5 ) , 2);
    $mime=$splited[0];
    $data=$splited[1];

    $mime_split_without_base64=explode(';', $mime,2);
    $mime_split=explode('/', $mime_split_without_base64[0],2);
    if(count($mime_split)==2)
    {
        $extension=$mime_split[1];
        if($extension=='jpeg')$extension='jpg';
        //if($extension=='javascript')$extension='js';
        //if($extension=='text')$extension='txt';
        $output_file_with_extension=$output_file_without_extension.'.'.$extension;
    }
    file_put_contents( $path_with_end_slash . $output_file_with_extension, base64_decode($data) );
    return $output_file_with_extension;
}

An easy way I'm using:

file_put_contents($output_file, file_get_contents($base64_string));

This works well because file_get_contents can read data from a URI, including a data:// URI.

The problem is that data:image/png;base64, is included in the encoded contents. This will result in invalid image data when the base64 function decodes it. Remove that data in the function before decoding the string, like so.

function base64_to_jpeg($base64_string, $output_file) {
    // open the output file for writing
    $ifp = fopen( $output_file, 'wb' ); 

    // split the string on commas
    // $data[ 0 ] == "data:image/png;base64"
    // $data[ 1 ] == <actual base64 string>
    $data = explode( ',', $base64_string );

    // we could add validation here with ensuring count( $data ) > 1
    fwrite( $ifp, base64_decode( $data[ 1 ] ) );

    // clean up the file resource
    fclose( $ifp ); 

    return $output_file; 
}

You need to remove the part that says data:image/png;base64, at the beginning of the image data. The actual base64 data comes after that.

Just strip everything up to and including base64, (before calling base64_decode() on the data) and you'll be fine.