imagefilter to create CSS sprites

Question

I'd like to automate creation of images for CSS sprites.

My goal is to convert a color thumbnail into black and white and merge it into one image with a color one on top and black at the bottom).

Here is what I have so far:

<?php
$image = imagecreatefrompng('test.png');

if($image && imagefilter($image , IMG_FILTER_GRAYSCALE))
{
    echo 'Image converted.';

    imagepng($image, 'test.png');
}
else
{
    echo 'Conversion failed.';
}

imagedestroy($image);
?>

Answer 1

<?php
$image_path = 'test.png';
$input_image = imagecreatefrompng($image_path);
$image_info = getimagesize($image_path);
$output_image = imagecreatetruecolor($image_info[0], $image_info[1] * 2);
imagecopy ($output_image, $input_image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $image_info[0], $image_info[1]);
if(imagefilter($input_image, IMG_FILTER_GRAYSCALE)) {
    echo 'Image converted.';
    imagecopy ($output_image, $input_image, 0, $image_info[1], 0, 0, $image_info[0], $image_info[1]);
    imagepng($output_image, 'test.png');
} else {
    echo 'Conversion failed.';
}
imagedestroy($input_image);
imagedestroy($output_image);
?>

Answer 2

I found a bug ($image1 should be $output_image)

<?php
$image_path = 'test.png';
$input_image = imagecreatefrompng($image_path);
$image_info = getimagesize($image_path);
$output_image = imagecreatetruecolor($image_info[0], $image_info[1] * 2);
imagecopy ($output_image, $input_image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $image_info[0], $image_info[1]);
if($output_image && imagefilter($output_image , IMG_FILTER_GRAYSCALE)) {
    echo 'Image converted.';
    imagecopy ($output_image, $input_image, 0, $image_info[1], 0, 0, $image_info[0], $image_info[1]);
    imagepng($output_image, 'test.png');
} else {
    echo 'Conversion failed.';
}
imagedestroy($input_image);
imagedestroy($output_image);
?>