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Create animated Facebook stickers

Features

• Create animated Facebook stickers
• Dependencies: imagemagick
• PSR-4 compatible.
• Compatible with PHP >= PHP 7.

Installation

• You can download facebook-sticker through https://github.com/kennynguyeenx/facebook-sticker.

• facebook-sticker requires the Imagick extension and GD extension from PHP.

• Imagick is a native php extension to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API. More information can be found in the PHP documentation.

• You will need to compile PHP with the GD library of image functions. More information can be found in the PHP documentation.

• You need to change owner of some folders like cache or images if needed

Usage

• Create animated Facebook sticker:

use Kennynguyeenx\FacebookSticker\FacebookSticker;

try {
    $facebookSticker = new FacebookSticker();
    $facebookSticker->createAnimatedSticker(
        $sourceImagePath,
        $destinationImagePath,
        $numOfRows,
        $numOfCols,
        $numOfFrames
    );
} catch (Exception $exception) {
    // Handle exception
}

• I created a file to run in console to create animated Facebook stickers as an example of using this class

• It's located at bin directory with name create_sticker.php

• You can follow these steps to create your own animated Facebook sticker:

1. Open a Messenger chat session and send your friend the animated sticker you'd like to have.

2. Right-click the sticker you just sent. Click "inspect" and you can see:

1. Right-click on that highlighted URL, click "open".

2. Right-click on the new-opened image, save it under the folder that you want. For me, i save it under images/source folder as example-sticker.png

3. Open that image and take a look. For example:

The format of this sticker is:

X  X  X  X  X
X  X  X  X  X
X  X  X  X  X
X  X  X  X  X

So this image have 4 rows, 5 columns and 20 frames, let's pass parameters for create_sticker.php file accordingly.

Let me give you another example. If there's another sticker which has a format like this:

X  X  X  X  X
X  X  X  X  X

Then you should pass 2 rows, 5 columns and 10 frames this time. As well as:

X  X  X  X
X  X  X  X
X  X  X  X
X  X  X

Pass 4 rows, 4 columns and 19 frames.

For example: you can run this command to create animated Facebook sticker with example image above

$ php ./bin/create_sticker.php ./images/source/example-stickers.png ./images/destination/animated.gif 4 5 20