I'm building a script for image resizing in Symfony2.
As I'd like to be able to use standard Symfony2 response system...
$headers = array('Content-Type' => 'image/png', 'Content-Disposition' => 'inline; filename="image.png"'); return new Response($img, 200, $headers); // $img comes from imagecreatetruecolor() ...I need a string to send as a response. Unfortunately, functions like imagepng do only write files or output directly to the browser, not return strings.
So far the only solutions I was able to think of are
1] save the image to a temporary location and then read it again
imagepng($img, $path); return new Response(file_get_contents($path), 200, $headers); 2] use output buffering
ob_start(); imagepng($img); $str = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); return new Response($str, 200, $headers); Is there a better way?