Check if image is white; if so make transparent

Question

I have an image, and I want to make it transparent if it's completely white. I have the following code already for GD for getting a part of the image:

$srcp = imagecreatefrompng("../images/".$_GET['b'].".png");
$destp = imagecreate(150, 150);
imagecopyresampled($destp, $srcp, 0, 0, 40, 8, 150, 150, 8, 8);
header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($destp);

But how can I have it first check if the image is completely white, if so change it to transparent, and apply that to $destp?

Answer 1

EDIT:

Based on re-reading the question, and the discussion below, I believe this is what you're looking for:

$width = 150;
$height = 150;

$srcp = imagecreatefrompng("../images/".$_GET['b'].".png");
$destp = imagecreatetruecolor(150, 150);

$white = 0;

for ($y = 0; $y < $height; $y++)
{
    for ($x = 0; $x < $width; $x++)
    {
        $currentColor = imagecolorat($srcp, $x, $y);
        $colorParts = imagecolorsforindex($srcp, $currentColor);

        if (($colorParts['red'] == 255 &&
            $colorParts['green'] == 255 &&
            $colorParts['blue'] == 255))
        {
            $white++;
        }
    }
}

if ($white == ($width * $height))
{
    imagecopyresampled($destp, $srcp, 0, 0, 40, 8, 150, 150, 8, 8);
}
else
{
    imagesavealpha($destp, true);
    imagefill($destp, 0, 0, imagecolorallocatealpha($destp, 0, 0, 0, 127));
}

header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($destp);

This produces a blank image if the original image's 8x8 slice is all white, otherwise it resamples the 8x8 slice to 150x150.

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Original:

I haven't ever done anything with PHP GD before, and thought it would be a fun challenge. Here's how I ended up making this happen:

$filename = 'test.png'; // input image
$image = imagecreatefrompng($filename);

// grab the input image's size
$size = getimagesize($filename);
$width = $size[0];
$height = $size[1];

$newImage = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);

// make sure that the image will retain alpha when saved
imagesavealpha($newImage, true);
// fill with transparent pixels first or else you'll
// get black instead of transparent
imagefill($newImage, 0, 0, imagecolorallocatealpha($newImage, 0, 0, 0, 127));

// loop through all the pixels
for ($y = 0; $y < $height; $y++)
{
    for ($x = 0; $x < $width; $x++)
    {
        // get the current pixel's colour
        $currentColor = imagecolorat($image, $x, $y);

        // then break it into easily parsed bits
        $colorParts = imagecolorsforindex($image, $currentColor);

        // if it's NOT white
        if (!($colorParts['red'] == 255 &&
            $colorParts['green'] == 255 &&
            $colorParts['blue'] == 255))
        {
            // then keep the same colour
            imagesetpixel($newImage, $x, $y, $currentColor);
        }
    }
}

// final output, the second arg is the filename
imagepng($newImage, 'newImage.png');

It allowed me to turn this:

Into this (hard to see the alpha here, but you can open it to see):