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

Pretty late to the game on this one, but if you are using the the S3 library mentioned by ConroyP and Imagick you should use the putObjectString() method instead of putObject() due the fact getImageBlob returns a string. Example that finally worked for me:

$headers = array(
    'Content-Type' => 'image/jpeg'
);
$s3->putObjectString($im->getImageBlob(), $bucket, $file_name, S3::ACL_PUBLIC_READ, array(), $headers);

I struggled with this one a bit, hopefully it helps someone else!