# imagecreatefromstring

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)

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

### Description

resource imagecreatefromstring ( string `$data` )

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.

### Parameters

`image`

  A string containing the image data

### Return Values

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.

### Examples

Example#1 imagecreatefromstring() example

`<?php
$data = 'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABwAAAASCAMAAAB/2U7WAAAABl'
. 'BMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAASUlEQVR4XqWQUQoAIAxC2/0vXZDr'
. 'EX4IJTRkb7lobNUStXsB0jIXIAMSsQnWlsV+wULF4Avk9fLq2r'
. '8a5HSE35Q3eO2XP1A1wQkZSgETvDtKdQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==';
$data = base64_decode($data);
$im = imagecreatefromstring($data);
if ($im !== false) {
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
}
else {
echo 'An error occurred.';
}
?>`

The above example will output something similar to:

### See Also

- imagecreatefromjpeg()
- imagecreatefrompng()
- imagecreatefromgif()
- imagecreatetruecolor()