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<refentry xml:id="function.imagecreatefromstring" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>imagecreatefromstring</refname>
  <refpurpose>Create a new image from the image stream in the string</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>resource</type><methodname>imagecreatefromstring</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>image</parameter></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   <function>imagecreatefromstring</function> returns an image identifier
   representing the image obtained from the given <parameter>image</parameter>.
   These types will be automatically detected if your build of PHP supports 
   them: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WBMP, and GD2.
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>image</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       A string containing the image data.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   An image resource will be returned on success. &false; is returned if
   the image type is unsupported, the data is not in a recognised format,
   or the image is corrupt and cannot be loaded.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="errors">
  &reftitle.errors;
  <para>
   <function>imagecreatefromstring</function> raises an E_WARNING level error,
   if the data is not in a recognized format.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title><function>imagecreatefromstring</function> example</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$data = 'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABwAAAASCAMAAAB/2U7WAAAABl'
       . 'BMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAASUlEQVR4XqWQUQoAIAxC2/0vXZDr'
       . 'EX4IJTRkb7lobNUStXsB0jIXIAMSsQnWlsV+wULF4Avk9fLq2r'
       . '8a5HSE35Q3eO2XP1A1wQkZSgETvDtKdQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==';
$data = base64_decode($data);

$im = imagecreatefromstring($data);
if ($im !== false) {
    header('Content-Type: image/png');
    imagepng($im);
    imagedestroy($im);
}
else {
    echo 'An error occurred.';
}
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    &example.outputs.similar;
    <mediaobject>
     <alt>Output of example : imagecreatefromstring()</alt>
     <imageobject>
      <imagedata fileref="en/reference/image/figures/imagecreatefromstring.png"/>
     </imageobject>
    </mediaobject>
   </example>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>imagecreatefromjpeg</function></member>
    <member><function>imagecreatefrompng</function></member>
    <member><function>imagecreatefromgif</function></member>
    <member><function>imagecreatetruecolor</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
</refentry>

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