I am currently working on gallery kind of iPhone application. According to my requirement, i need to store all the camera captured image into document directory. there is so
NSData *imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation([UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:pathToStoreImage]);
NSString *str = [self base64StringFromData:imageData length:0];
And then you can pass the str object to any parameter of server.
use the base64StringFromData function in your .m file;
-(NSString *) base64StringFromData: (NSData *)data length: (int)length {
unsigned long ixtext, lentext;
long ctremaining;
unsigned char input[3], output[4];
short i, charsonline = 0, ctcopy;
const unsigned char *raw;
NSMutableString *result;
lentext = [data length];
if (lentext < 1)
return @"";
result = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity: lentext];
raw = [data bytes];
ixtext = 0;
while (true) {
ctremaining = lentext - ixtext;
if (ctremaining <= 0)
break;
for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
unsigned long ix = ixtext + i;
if (ix < lentext)
input[i] = raw[ix];
else
input[i] = 0;
}
output[0] = (input[0] & 0xFC) >> 2;
output[1] = ((input[0] & 0x03) << 4) | ((input[1] & 0xF0) >> 4);
output[2] = ((input[1] & 0x0F) << 2) | ((input[2] & 0xC0) >> 6);
output[3] = input[2] & 0x3F;
ctcopy = 4;
switch (ctremaining) {
case 1:
ctcopy = 2;
break;
case 2:
ctcopy = 3;
break;
}
for (i = 0; i < ctcopy; i++)
[result appendString: [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%c", base64EncodingTable[output[i]]]];
for (i = ctcopy; i < 4; i++)
[result appendString: @"="];
ixtext += 3;
charsonline += 4;
if ((length > 0) && (charsonline >= length))
charsonline = 0;
}
return result;
}