php-blurhash 
A pure PHP implementation of Blurhash. The API is stable, however the hashing function in either direction may not be.
Blurhash is an algorithm written by Dag ร gren for Wolt (woltapp/blurhash) that encodes an image into a short (~20-30 byte) ASCII string. When you decode the string back into an image, you get a gradient of colors that represent the original image. This can be useful for scenarios where you want an image placeholder before loading, or even to censor the contents of an image a la Mastodon.
Installation
$ composer require kornrunner/blurhashUsage
Encoding with GD
Encoding an image to blurhash expects two-dimensional array of colors of image pixels, sample code:
<?php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use kornrunner\Blurhash\Blurhash;
$file = 'test/data/img1.jpg';
$image = imagecreatefromstring(file_get_contents($file));
$width = imagesx($image);
$height = imagesy($image);
$pixels = [];
for ($y = 0; $y < $height; ++$y) {
$row = [];
for ($x = 0; $x < $width; ++$x) {
$index = imagecolorat($image, $x, $y);
$colors = imagecolorsforindex($image, $index);
$row[] = [$colors['red'], $colors['green'], $colors['blue']];
}
$pixels[] = $row;
}
$components_x = 4;
$components_y = 3;
$blurhash = Blurhash::encode($pixels, $components_x, $components_y);
// LEHV9uae2yk8pyo0adR*.7kCMdnjEncoding with Intervention
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use kornrunner\Blurhash\Blurhash;
use Intervention\Image\ImageManagerStatic as Image;
$file = 'test/data/img1.jpg';
$image = Image::make($source);
$width = $image->width();
$height = $image->height();
$pixels = [];
for ($y = 0; $y < $height; ++$y) {
$row = [];
for ($x = 0; $x < $width; ++$x) {
$colors = $image->pickColor($x, $y);
$row[] = [$colors[0], $colors[1], $colors[2]];
}
$pixels[] = $row;
}
$components_x = 4;
$components_y = 3;
$blurhash = Blurhash::encode($pixels, $components_x, $components_y);
// LEHV9uae2yk8pyo0adR*.7kCMdnjDecoding with JS / TS
For decoding of blurhash people will likely go for some other implementation (JavaScript/TypeScript). PHP decoder returns a pixel array that can be used to generate the image:
<?php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use kornrunner\Blurhash\Blurhash;
$blurhash = 'LEHV6nWB2yk8pyo0adR*.7kCMdnj';
$width = 269;
$height = 173;
$pixels = Blurhash::decode($blurhash, $width, $height);
$image = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
for ($y = 0; $y < $height; ++$y) {
for ($x = 0; $x < $width; ++$x) {
[$r, $g, $b] = $pixels[$y][$x];
imagesetpixel($image, $x, $y, imagecolorallocate($image, $r, $g, $b));
}
}
imagepng($image, 'blurhash.png');Contributing
Issues, feature requests or improvements welcome!
Licence
This project is licensed under the MIT License.