Intervention Image with Laravel Resource API

Question

Is it possible to return a image created on the fly with Laravel API Resources without saving it? Tried in controller

$sum = Product::where('slug', $product)->first();

        $img = Image::make('image_path')->resize(400, 400);
        $img->text(name, 205, 138, function($font) {
            $font->file('fonts/BostonHeavy.woff');
            $font->size(42);
            $font->color('#ffffff');
            $font->align('center');
            $font->valign('top');
        });

       return (new ProductResource($sum))->foo($img);

Laravel API Resource

<?php

namespace App\Http\Resources;
use Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\JsonResource;

class ProductResource extends JsonResource
{
    protected $image;

    public function foo($value){
        $this->image = $value;
        return $this;
    }

    public function toArray($request)
    {
        return [
            'id' => $this->id,
            'name' => $this->name,
            'image' => $this->image,
        ];
    }

}

what gets returned

{
    "data": {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Such a pickle",
        "image": {
            "encoded": "",
            "mime": "image/jpeg",
            "dirname": null,
            "basename": null,
            "extension": null,
            "filename": null
        }
    }
}

This obviously is not working in the docs it says to use return $img->response('jpg'); which on it's own works but I want to added it to the response instead of doing two get requests.

Answer 1

From what I understand you want to return something you can use inside a src attribute in an img tag. Try this:

$imgBase64 = (string) $img->encode('data-url');
return (new ProductResource($sum))->foo($imgBase64);

Then, use that string in an img tag with the appropriate syntax:

<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64, <<yourEncodedStringHere>>" />