Issue reading GDImage object using \Imagine\Gd\Imagine read() method about imagine HOT 3 CLOSED

Imagine\Gd\Imagine::read() can only handle resources that point to files, not GD resource objects.
So your code should probably look like this:

$file_contents = file_get_contents($path);
$imagine_object = new Imagine\Gd\Imagine();
$imagine_object->load($file_contents);

Or if you need to handle existing GD resources you could use the class factory to create an image from that:

$gd_resource = imagecreatefromstring(file_get_contents($path)); // in php 8 creates a GDImage object
(new Imagine\Factory\ClassFactory())->createImage(
	Imagine\Factory\ClassFactoryInterface::HANDLE_GD, 
	$gd_resource, 
	new Imagine\Image\Palette\RGB(), 
	new Imagine\Image\Metadata\MetadataBag(),
);

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Hi - that's super helpful thanks.
Am just getting head around Imagine and finding the documentation quite terse: great as a reference for specific methods, but not so useful for getting a handle on approach used by library. Such illustrative information as I have found so far dates from 2011, and not useful for current version of library.
Do you know if there are good sources of information on use of the library beyond the docs?
Thanks!

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Do you know if there are good sources of information on use of the library beyond the docs?

I don’t know. I usually read the source code directly to find out how it is meant to be used. ☺️

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