Intervention Image encode image to base64 format in Laravel

To encode an image to base64 format in Laravel you can make use Intervention Image package.

Intervention Image

By using the Intervention Image package, you can call out the "encode()" method and pass in the "data-url" as the parameter to get the base64 value.

From the Laravel disk you can retrieve the image and pass it on to the Intervention Image "make()" method like below.

<?php

use Intervention\Image\Facades\Image;

$userPosterImage = User::first()
    ->poster_image;

$imageLocation = \Storage::disk('public')
    ->url($userPosterImage);

$imageInBase64 = (string) Image::make($imageLocation)
    ->encode('data-url');

Now that you have the image in base64 format you can pass it to the image tag and preview it on your browser.

<img src="{{ $imageInBase64 }}">