note 110868 deleted from function.base64-encode by danbrown

Note Submitter: Adam [at] aboutcher.co.uk ---- I've attempted to improve on the previous functions by Luke and Jeff. This utilises file_get_contents(), retrieves the image filetype from the filename and a fall back incase the script doesn't run in the correct directory etc; it also has backwards compatability so the original can just be replaced. function base64_encode_image ($filename=string, $filetype=NULL) { if(empty($filetype)) { $filetype = pathinfo($filename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION); } if (file_exists($filename)) { $imgbinary = @file_get_contents($filename); return 'data:image/' . $filetype . ';base64,' . base64_encode($imgbinary); } else { return $filename; } } I hope this helps.