README.md, (*1)
Eric Vought, (*2)
2015-01-25 DataURI PHP library, (*3)
What This Project Is
The DataUri class provides a convenient way to access and construct
data URIs, but should not be relied upon for enforcing RFC 2397 standards., (*4)
This class will not:, (*5)
- Validate the media-type provided/parsed
- Validate the encoded data provided/parsed
Examples of how to use the class are in FlyingTopHat's blog post, "Using Data URI's in PHP"., (*6)
Source and History
DataURI is a class originally written by FlyTopHat and was used as an example in a 2012 blog post and as a Gist., (*7)
In 2014, I forked the Gist in order to package it as a micro-library for use by Composer as a dependency in other projects.
Using a Gist-based micro-library in composer requires creating a custom VCS-based repository in your composer.json. This is clunky but acceptable in an application but becomes difficult if the host project is itself used as a Composer-dependency because the custom repository definition is not (by design) included in the host project.
The repository definition and package requirement must be repeated in each enclosing project--- effectively defeating the purpose of automatic dependency management., (*8)
So, in 2015, I forked my fork of DataURI, this time to move it to a full-fledged GitHub repository so that it could be made into an actual composer-managed library in the Packagist repository and the extra machinery needed to turn it into
a production component could be added., (*9)
Licensing
All components are under an MIT license. FlyingTopHat added an MIT license to
the original GIST on 2 February 2015 to clarify original license., (*10)