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Function to create data uri’s

Submitted by Jean on May 6th, 2012

These can be useful for embedding images into HTML/CSS/JS to save on HTTP requests.

function data_uri($file, $mime) {
  $contents=file_get_contents($file);
  $base64=base64_encode($contents);
  echo "data:$mime;base64,$base64";
}