Crop whitespace from image in PHP

Gnud's script redundantly calls imagesx and imagesy. It also iterates every pixel on every side, even when the corners overlap. This improved version eliminates redundant function calls and checks every pixel only once, granting a significant increase in speed. The function returns a status ($result['#']) equal to 2 if every pixel is the trimmed.

example();
function example(){
    $img = imagecreatefromjpeg("http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413XvF0yukL._SL500_AA280_.jpg");

    // find the trimmed image border
    $box = imageTrimBox($img);

    // copy cropped portion
    $img2 = imagecreate($box['w'], $box['h']);
    imagecopy($img2, $img, 0, 0, $box['l'], $box['t'], $box['w'], $box['h']);

    // output cropped image to the browser
    header('Content-Type: image/png');
    imagepng($img2);

    imagedestroy($img);
    imagedestroy($img2);
}



function imageTrimBox($img, $hex=null){
if (!ctype_xdigit($hex)) $hex = imagecolorat($img, 0,0);
$b_top = $b_lft = 0;
$b_rt = $w1 = $w2 = imagesx($img);
$b_btm = $h1 = $h2 = imagesy($img);

do {
    //top
    for(; $b_top < $h1; ++$b_top) {
        for($x = 0; $x < $w1; ++$x) {
            if(imagecolorat($img, $x, $b_top) != $hex) {
                break 2;
            }
        }
    }

    // stop if all pixels are trimmed
    if ($b_top == $b_btm) {
        $b_top = 0;
        $code = 2;
        break 1;
    }

    // bottom
    for(; $b_btm >= 0; --$b_btm) {
        for($x = 0; $x < $w1; ++$x) {
            if(imagecolorat($img, $x, $b_btm-1) != $hex) {
                break 2;
            }
        }
    }

    // left
    for(; $b_lft < $w1; ++$b_lft) {
        for($y = $b_top; $y <= $b_btm; ++$y) {
            if(imagecolorat($img, $b_lft, $y) != $hex) {
                break 2;
            }
        }
    }

    // right
    for(; $b_rt >= 0; --$b_rt) {
        for($y = $b_top; $y <= $b_btm; ++$y) {
            if(imagecolorat($img, $b_rt-1, $y) != $hex) {
                break 2;
            }
        }

    }

    $w2 = $b_rt - $b_lft;
    $h2 = $b_btm - $b_top;
    $code = ($w2 < $w1 || $h2 < $h1) ? 1 : 0;
} while (0);

// result codes:
// 0 = Trim Zero Pixels
// 1 = Trim Some Pixels
// 2 = Trim All Pixels
return array(
    '#'     => $code,   // result code
    'l'     => $b_lft,  // left
    't'     => $b_top,  // top
    'r'     => $b_rt,   // right
    'b'     => $b_btm,  // bottom
    'w'     => $w2,     // new width
    'h'     => $h2,     // new height
    'w1'    => $w1,     // original width
    'h1'    => $h1,     // original height
);
}

To trim all whitespace, as you call it, surrounding the interesting part of the image, first we find out where the "whitespace" stops, and then we copy everything inside of those borders.

//load the image
$img = imagecreatefromjpeg("http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413XvF0yukL._SL500_AA280_.jpg");

//find the size of the borders
$b_top = 0;
$b_btm = 0;
$b_lft = 0;
$b_rt = 0;

//top
for(; $b_top < imagesy($img); ++$b_top) {
  for($x = 0; $x < imagesx($img); ++$x) {
    if(imagecolorat($img, $x, $b_top) != 0xFFFFFF) {
       break 2; //out of the 'top' loop
    }
  }
}

//bottom
for(; $b_btm < imagesy($img); ++$b_btm) {
  for($x = 0; $x < imagesx($img); ++$x) {
    if(imagecolorat($img, $x, imagesy($img) - $b_btm-1) != 0xFFFFFF) {
       break 2; //out of the 'bottom' loop
    }
  }
}

//left
for(; $b_lft < imagesx($img); ++$b_lft) {
  for($y = 0; $y < imagesy($img); ++$y) {
    if(imagecolorat($img, $b_lft, $y) != 0xFFFFFF) {
       break 2; //out of the 'left' loop
    }
  }
}

//right
for(; $b_rt < imagesx($img); ++$b_rt) {
  for($y = 0; $y < imagesy($img); ++$y) {
    if(imagecolorat($img, imagesx($img) - $b_rt-1, $y) != 0xFFFFFF) {
       break 2; //out of the 'right' loop
    }
  }
}

//copy the contents, excluding the border
$newimg = imagecreatetruecolor(
    imagesx($img)-($b_lft+$b_rt), imagesy($img)-($b_top+$b_btm));

imagecopy($newimg, $img, 0, 0, $b_lft, $b_top, imagesx($newimg), imagesy($newimg));

//finally, output the image
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
imagejpeg($newimg);

My old example, that assumes an identical "border" on all sides of the image, just to clarify the comments :)

//load the image
$img = imagecreatefromjpeg("img.jpg");

//find the size of the border.
$border = 0;
while(imagecolorat($img, $border, $border) == 0xFFFFFF) {
  $border++;
}

//copy the contents, excluding the border
//This code assumes that the border is the same size on all sides of the image.
$newimg = imagecreatetruecolor(imagesx($img)-($border*2), imagesy($img)-($border*2));
imagecopy($newimg, $img, 0, 0, $border, $border, imagesx($newimg), imagesy($newimg));

//finally, if you want, overwrite the original image
imagejpeg($newimg, "img.jpg");

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