The easiest way to convert HEIC/HEIF images to JPEG with PHP and Laravel framework. It uses binary file created with Go language and has no dependencies on any other PHP libraries, extensions or third-part software
Run command in your project's root directory
composer require maestroerror/php-heic-to-jpg
Using the class "HeicToJpeg" is extremely simple. You need full location of any HEIC image to pass in "convert" function and call "saveAs" (save as file) or "get" (get file contents) methods.
// 1. save as file
Maestroerror\HeicToJpg::convert("image1.heic")->saveAs("image1.jpg");
// 2. get content (binary) of converted JPG
$jpg = Maestroerror\HeicToJpg::convert("image1.heic")->get();
It should detect the OS itself, but if you want to specify architecture, it is recommended to use convertOnMac
instead. The second argument is architecture of your system, by default set as "amd64", but you can specify "arm64" (AArch64, M1)
Note: As reported by several users, M1 Macbook works on amd64
binary file, so if arm64
doesn't work for you, just try convertOnMac("image1.heic")
// By default
Maestroerror\HeicToJpg::convertOnMac("image1.heic", "arm64")->saveAs("image1.jpg");
In case of linux, for some reason, if it doesn't detect your architecture correct or just the php-heic-to-jpg-linux-arm64
binary is working for you well, (From v1.0.4) you can force it to use in convert
and convertFromUrl
by passing true as third argument:
Maestroerror\HeicToJpg::convert("image1.heic", "", true)->saveAs("image.jpg");
Before converting, you can use the isHeic method (contributed by pbs-dg) to check if a file is HEIC format.
$fileIsHeic = HeicToJpg::isHeic("image.heic");
if ($fileIsHeic) {
// Your code
}
If your image is available publicly, you can easily convert and save it in your file system using convertFromUrl
method:
Maestroerror\HeicToJpg::convertFromUrl("https://github.com/MaestroError/php-heic-to-jpg/raw/maestro/tests/Unit/images/image1.heic")->saveAs("image1.jpg");
If you encounter an issue where the module cannot convert certain images produced by Samsung devices (detailed in this issue), resulting in the error error reading "meta" box: got box type "mdat" instead
, you can take the following steps:
heif-converter-image is already required by composer in this (php-heic-to-jpg) package. heif-converter-image
depends on libheif and provides installation scripts for various platforms refer to it's documentation.
Ensure you have maestroerror/heif-converter
required in composer by running composer require maestroerror/heif-converter
.
Make sure libheif is installed on your system. You can check the libheif for installation instructions or use installation script for your platform provided by heif-converter-image.
The php-heic-to-jpg
package automatically detects the presence of the heif-converter-image
package and will attempt to use its Command Line Interface (CLI) executable for conversion if default conversion fails.
In case the package cannot find the heif-converter-image
CLI, you can specify the path as an argument in the convert
and convertOnMac
methods like so:
HeicToJpg::convert("image.heic", "path/to/your/bin/heif-converter-{linux/windows/macos}")->saveAs("image.jpg");
HeicToJpg::convertOnMac("image.heic", "arm64", "path/to/your/bin/heif-converter-macos")->saveAs("image.jpg");
HeicToJpg::convertFromUrl("SOME_URL", "path/to/your/bin/heif-converter-{linux/windows/macos}")->saveAs("image.jpg");
With these steps, you should be able to handle the conversion of images that were previously causing issues.
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27/02/2023
Built executables for MacOs (OS X / Darwin) with command sudo /home/maestroerror/go/bin/xgo --targets=darwin/* github.com/MaestroError/php-heic-to-jpg
04/03/2023
Added pest test and workflows for linux, windows and macos. Run tests locally with ./vendor/bin/pest