I tried something like this but it just makes the background of the image white, not necessarily the alpha of the image. I wanted to just upload everything as jpg's so if i could somehow "flatten" a png image with some transparently to default it to just be white so i can use it as a jpg instead. Appreciate any help. Thanks.

$old = imagecreatefrompng($upload);
$background = imagecolorallocate($old,255,255,255);
imagefill($old, 0, 0, $background);
imagealphablending($old, false);
imagesavealpha($old, true);