What is PHP PNGQuant

PHP-PNGQuant is a non-official wrapper for the great PNGQuant, the command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.

Requirements

You need pngquant accesible from the PATH. If the utility isn't available for any reason, you can change the path to the binary using the setBinaryPath method:

<?php

use ourcodeworld\PNGQuant\PNGQuant;

$instance = new PNGQuant();

// Change the path to the binary of pngquant, for example in windows would be (with an example path):
$instance->setBinaryPath("C:\\Users\\sdkca\\Desktop\\pngquant.exe")
    // Other options of PNGQuant here
    ->execute();

Installation

php-pngquant can be used either with or without Composer.

With Composer

The preferred way to use php-pngquant is with Composer. Execute the following command to install this package as a dependency in your project:

composer require ourcodeworld/php-pngquant

Without Composer

If you don't use composer, you can still use the wrapper. Download the PNGQuant.php class from the repository and then use require_once to import it in your code:

<?php

require_once("PNGQuant.php");

$instance = new PNGQuant();

// Configuration here ...

Example

Save the file directly into a directory with a file name.

// Include the class
use ourcodeworld\PNGQuant\PNGQuant;

$instance = new PNGQuant();

// Set the path to the image to compress
$exit_code = $instance->setImage("/a-folder/image-original.png")
    // Set the output filepath
    ->setOutputImage("/a-folder/image-compressed.png")
    // Overwrite output file if exists, otherwise pngquant will generate output ...
    ->overwriteExistingFile()
    // As the quality in pngquant isn't fixed (it uses a range)
    // set the quality between 50 and 80
    ->setQuality(50,80)
    // Execute the command
    ->execute();

// if exit code is equal to 0 then everything went right !
if(!$exit_code){
    echo "Image succesfully compressed";
}else{
    echo "Something went wrong (status code $exit_code)  with description: ". $instance->getErrorTable()[(string) $exit_code];
}

If you need the raw data of the image (store the binary data of the compressed image), you can use the getRawOutput function:

// Include the class
use ourcodeworld\PNGQuant\PNGQuant;

$instance = new PNGQuant();

// Set the path to the image to compress
$result = $instance->setImage("/a-folder/image-original.png")
    // Overwrite output file if exists, otherwise pngquant will generate output ...
    ->overwriteExistingFile()
    // As the quality in pngquant isn't fixed (it uses a range)
    // set the quality between 50 and 80
    ->setQuality(50,80)
    // Retrieve RAW data from pngquant
    ->getRawOutput();

$exit_code = $result["statusCode"];


// if exit code is equal to 0 then everything went right !
if($exit_code == 0){

    $rawImage = imagecreatefromstring($result["imageData"]);

    // Example Save the PNG Image from the raw data into a file or do whatever you want.
    // imagepng($rawImage , 'newfile.png');

    echo "Image succesfully compressed, do something with the raw Data";
}else{
    echo "Something went wrong (status code $exit_code)  with description: ". $instance->getErrorTable()[(string) $exit_code];
}

Documentation

For further information and examples of the wrapper, please visit the official documentation here.

The MIT License (MIT)

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