Instantiation

• Reading Images
  • Reading image sources
• Creating Images
  • Creating new images

Reading Images

Reading image sources

public ImageManager::make(mixed $source): ImageInterface

With Intervention Image you are able to read images from severeal different sources. The starting point is an instance of the Intervention\Image\ImageManager class. This class provides a universal method make() to read different types of image sources.

Parameters

Supported image sources

This method not only supports filepaths as an argument. The following argument formats are accepted.

• Path in filesystem
• Raw binary image data
• Base64 encoded image data
• Data Uri
• Intervention Image Instance

If the given argument can not be decoded by the library an exception of type Intervention\Image\Exceptions\DecoderException is thrown.

Examples

use Intervention\Image\ImageManager;

// create new manager instance with desired driver
$manager = new ImageManager('imagick');

// read image from filesystem
$image = $manager->make('images/example.jpg');

// read image from binary data
$image = $manager->make(file_get_contents('images/example.jpg'));

Creating Images

Creating new images

public ImageManager::create(int $width, int $height, mixed $background = 'transparent'): ImageInterface

Reading existing image sources is one thing, but what if you want to create your own images? Intervention Images can help you with that. You start with an instance of the Intervention\Image\ImageManager class and call the create() method with the desired image size as arguments. See the following example:

By default the image is created with a transparent background. If you want to define a background color instead use an optional third parameter.

Parameters

Examples

use Intervention\Image\ImageManager;

// create new manager instance with desired driver
$manager = new ImageManager('gd');

// create new image 640x480
$image = $manager->create(640, 480);

// create new image 512x512 with grey background
$image = $manager->create(512, 512, 'ccc');