Business
Jobs
  • About Us
  • Solutions
    • Job Postings
      Post your job and receive qualified candidates in 48h.
    • Candidate Assessments
      500+ technical and psychological tests, plus anti-fraud.
    • Headhunting
      Tailor-made executive search from start to finish.
    • Payroll + EOR
      Payroll dispersal and EOR across 15+ LATAM countries.
  • Pricing
  • Jobs

0

345
Views
Base64 image decoding issue - empty .png file?

I'm trying to get a .png image from <canvas> element generated basing on html code.

The javascript i'm using is:

function canvityo() {
        html2canvas(document.body, {
            onrendered: function(canvas) {
            document.body.appendChild( canvas );
            var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL();

        $.ajax({
          type: "POST",
          url: "imgprocess.php",
          data: { 
             imgBase64: dataURL
          }
        }).done(function(o) {
          console.log('saved'); 
        });
  }
});
}

I have html2canvas library linked, it creates good <canvas> (can see them since I used appendChild), and now I'd like to convert those <canvas> into photo.png file, to be able to either save it on server, or INSERT INTO as blob to my `database table.

var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL();

to this point it seems everything is working fine (I can manage to get this url, which appears to be hella long). Because of strange look i'm pretty much sure i'd need to use base64 decoding to retrieve it as image file.

My imgprocess.php looks like that:

<?php

$img = $_POST['data'];
$img = str_replace('data:image/png;base64,', '', $img);
$img = str_replace(' ', '+', $img);
$fileData = base64_decode($img);
$fileName = 'photo.png';
file_put_contents($fileName, $fileData);

?>

It does output photo.png file, but the file is empty and as I'm not very experienced I've been struggling to find cause of this issue.

Maybe you guys could help me deal with this problem?

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
1 answers
Answer question

0

It should be $img = $_POST['imgBase64']; not $img = $_POST['data']; as your data object's key name is imgBase64 when sending the ajax post request.

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
Answer question
Find remote jobs

Discover the new way to find a job!

Top jobs
Top job categories
Business
Post vacancy Pricing Sales
Legal
Terms and conditions Privacy policy
© 2026 PeakU Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Andres GPT
Show me some job opportunities
There's an error!