Creating an image without storing it as a local file

Question

Here\'s my situation - I want to create a resized jpeg image from a user uploaded image, and then send it to S3 for storage, but am looking to avoid writing the resized jpeg

Answer 1

This can be done using the GD library and output buffering. I don't know how efficient this is compared with other methods, but it doesn't require explicit creation of files.

//$image contains the GD image resource you want to store

ob_start();
imagejpeg($image);
$jpeg_file_contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

//now send $jpeg_file_contents to S3