GD! Converting a png image to jpeg and making the alpha by default white and not black

Question

I tried something like this but it just makes the background of the image white, not necessarily the alpha of the image. I wanted to just upload everything as jpg's so if i could somehow "flatten" a png image with some transparently to default it to just be white so i can use it as a jpg instead. Appreciate any help. Thanks.

$old = imagecreatefrompng($upload);
$background = imagecolorallocate($old,255,255,255);
imagefill($old, 0, 0, $background);
imagealphablending($old, false);
imagesavealpha($old, true);

Answer 1

<?php
$input_file = "test.png";
$output_file = "test.jpg";

$input = imagecreatefrompng($input_file);
list($width, $height) = getimagesize($input_file);
$output = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
$white = imagecolorallocate($output,  255, 255, 255);
imagefilledrectangle($output, 0, 0, $width, $height, $white);
imagecopy($output, $input, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height);
imagejpeg($output, $output_file);