Use PHP to convert JPEGs to transparent PNG

Question

I have a lot of JPEG images that I want to convert to PNG images using PHP. The JPEGs are going to be uploaded by clients so I can't trust them to make sure they are in the right format.

I also want to make their white backgrounds transparent.

Does PHP have any functions I can use to achieve this?

Answer 1

After a few days of trying different solutions and doing some more research, this is what I found worked for me.

 $image = imagecreatefromjpeg( 'image.jpg' );
 imagealphablending($image, true);
 $transparentcolour = imagecolorallocate($image, 255,255,255);
 imagecolortransparent($image, $transparentcolour)

The imagealphablending($image, true); is important.

Using imagesavealpha($f, true); as mentioned in a previous answer definitely doesn't work and seems to actually prevent you from making the background transparent...

To output the transparent image with the correct headers.

<?php
     header( 'Content-Type: image/png' );
     imagepng( $image, null, 1 );
?>