README.md

php-rsvg

PHP extension based on RSVG library to quickly convert SVG files into EPS, PDF, PNG and SVG again.

Requirements

• PHP 7.x or 8.x
• cairo (tested with 1.18.0)
• librsvg (tested with 2.58.0)

Installation

To build and install the module, clone the project and run below command:

phpize
./configure
make
make install

Then enable the extension in your php.ini

extension=rsvg.so

To try out the extension, you can run the following command

php -a -d extension=modules/rsvg.so

Usage

Once loaded, you can use below functions to process SVG files:

<?php

// read SVG file contents
$svg_contents = file_get_contents('qrcode.svg');

// convert from SVG to PNG
$png_contents = rsvg_convert($svg_contents, 'png', '#ffffff'); // can also pass 'eps', 'pdf' or 'svg'

// can also convert b/w files directly
rsvg_convert_file('qrcode.svg', 'qrcode.png', 'png', '#ffffff');

In above examples, #ffffff is the background color to be used for output. To output an image with transparent background, supply an empty string i.e., ''.