My PNG has transparency, but after saving with PHP GD, transparency is lost [closed]
- by Harry Stroker
I found the solution to my problem. See below the original post and completely at the bottom my solution. I made a stupid mistake :)
First I crop an image and then save it to a png file. Right after this, I also show the image.
However, the saved png does not have transparency and the shown one has. What is going on?
$this->resource = imagecreatefrompng($this->url);
imagealphablending($this->resource, false);
imagesavealpha($this->resource, true);
$newResource = imagecreatetruecolor($destWidth, $destHeight);
imagealphablending($newResource, false);
imagesavealpha($newResource, true);
$resample = imagecopyresampled($newResource,$this->resource,0,0,$srcX1,$srcY1,$destWidth,$destHeight,$srcX2-$srcX1, $srcY2-$srcY1);
imagedestroy($this->resource);
$this->resource = $newResource;
// SAVING
imagepng($this->resource, $destination, 100);
// SHOWING
header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($this->resource);
The reason I also save the image is for caching. If the script is executed on a png, it saves a cached png.
Next time the image is requested, the png file will be shown, but it has lost its transparency.
Even stranger:
When I save that cached png image as (within Firefox), it saves it suddenly as a jpg, even though the extension was png.
Downloading the cached png using chrome and opening it in Photoshop
gives the error: "file-format module cannot parse the file".
I will show you the shown PNG and the generated PNG:
http://www.foodmuseum.nl/SaveProblemTransparency.png
Once I try to show that saved PNG with the GD library, it gives me an error.
EDIT
NO NO NO NO THIS IS NOT A DUPLICATE!!!... I ALREADY USED THEIR SOLUTION.
The solution in the supposedly duplicate works for showing my image. But I also try to save it with the exact same resource, but then it has no transparency.
EDIT 2 - SOLUTION
I found out what the problem was. It was a stupid mistake. The script I provided above were cut out of a class and placed as sequential code, while in real this is not what exactly happened. The save image function:
function saveImage($destination,$quality = 90)
{
$this->loadResource();
switch($extension){
default:
case 'JPG':
case 'jpg':
imagejpeg($this->resource, $destination, $quality);
break;
case 'gif':
imagegif($this->resource, $destination);
break;
case 'png':
imagepng($this->resource, $destination);
break;
case 'gd2':
imagegd2($this->resource, $destination);
break;
}
}
However... $extension does not exist. I fixed it by adding:
$extension = $this->getExtension($destination);
