How to save a PNG image server-side, from a base64 data string

Question

I\'m using Nihilogic\'s \"Canvas2Image\" JavaScript tool to convert canvas drawings to PNG images. What I need now is to turn those base64 strings that this tool generates,

Answer 1

based on drew010 example I made a working example for easy understanding.

imagesaver("data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJ"); //use full base64 data 

function imagesaver($image_data){

    list($type, $data) = explode(';', $image_data); // exploding data for later checking and validating 

    if (preg_match('/^data:image\/(\w+);base64,/', $image_data, $type)) {
        $data = substr($data, strpos($data, ',') + 1);
        $type = strtolower($type[1]); // jpg, png, gif

        if (!in_array($type, [ 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'png' ])) {
            throw new \Exception('invalid image type');
        }

        $data = base64_decode($data);

        if ($data === false) {
            throw new \Exception('base64_decode failed');
        }
    } else {
        throw new \Exception('did not match data URI with image data');
    }

    $fullname = time().$type;

    if(file_put_contents($fullname, $data)){
        $result = $fullname;
    }else{
        $result =  "error";
    }
    /* it will return image name if image is saved successfully 
    or it will return error on failing to save image. */
    return $result; 
}