imagecreatefromstring
    (PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)
imagecreatefromstring -- Create a new image from the image stream in the string
Description
resource 
imagecreatefromstring ( string image)
     imagecreatefromstring() returns an image identifier
     representing the image obtained from the given string. These types
     will be automatically detected if your build of PHP supports them:
     JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, and GD2.
    
Return Values
     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.
    
Examples
     
Example 1. imagecreatefromstring() example 
<?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); } else {     echo 'An error occured.'; } ?>
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