How to base64 encode an image from the facebook api

Question

I am attempting to convert an image url provided by the facebook api into base64 format with cURL.

the api provides a url as such:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-         


        

Answer 1

I had similar problem. My solution:

$url = urldecode($url);
return base64_encode(file_get_contents($url));

Where the URL is to Graph API:

https://graph.facebook.com/$user_id/picture?width=160

(You probably want to also check, if file_get_contents returns something)