Question

I am trying to make this .php file act as a .png, so I can do e.g. <img src='test.php'> [example]

I added a header as an image and did this:

<?php

/* Start Connection */
[Ignore This]
/* End Connection */

/* Add to counter */
mysql_query("UPDATE counter SET counter = counter + 1");
/* End Add */

/* For Echo */
$count = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("SELECT counter FROM counter"));
$hits = $count[0];
/* Create Echo as Null 
* @echo
echo "$hits";
*/

/* End Echo */

//Img Area
$font = "font.ttf";
$image = imagecreatefrompng("hits.png");
$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
imagettftext($image, 15, 0, 10, 24, $color, $font, $hits);
imagepng($image, "test.png");
imagedestroy($image);
header('Content-Type: image/png')
?>

But it just displays a broken image.

This file is img.php

The broken image is img.php

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

imagepng($image, "test.png"); if you’re saving the image to a file, why are you expecting it to be output to the browser? If you want it to be output directly, just use imagepng($image);

Also, the header call needs to be before anything is output.