Can you create a GD image in PHP from an image in memory?

Question

I need the a function like imagecreatefrompng(), but I want to pass in the image directly (as opposed to the filename). Is this possible?

Note: I need this because the image is coming from a blob in a database.

Answer 1

Yes, you can use imagecreatefromstring()

ttp://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatefromstring.php

Answer 2

imagecreatefromstring()

It should detect it is a png from the image header and return an image resource.