PHP

Get Contents of File as Base64

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Demonstrates how to read the contents of a file and convert to a base64 string. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\BinData;

$bd = new BinData();

try {
    $bd->LoadFile('qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo "Failed to load file.\n";
    exit;
}

echo $bd->GetEncoded('base64'), "\n";

// If you want mult-line base64:
echo "--\n";
echo $bd->GetEncoded('base64_mime'), "\n";

// If you want hex..
echo "--\n";
echo $bd->GetEncoded('hex'), "\n";

// etc..