Question

i wrote this code:

class Generate{
    private $canvas;
    function __construct($width, $height){
        $this->canvas = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
    }
    public function bg($r=0,$g=0,$b=0){
        $color = imagecolorallocate($this->canvas, $r, $g, $b);
        imagefill($this->canvas, 0, 0, $color);
    }
    public function gen(){
        header('Content-Type: image/png');
        imagepng($this->canvas, NULL, 9);
        imagedestroy($this->canvas);
    }
}

and called it with this:

$G = new Generate(100, 100);
$G->bg(255, 255, 255);
$G->gen();

its generating image fine when i comment out the header in the gen() function and set it to save the image. Like this:

imagepng($this->canvas, 'img.png', 9);

but i want it to send the header(output the image) but it gives me an error. can someone please tell me what i’m doing wrong? can you even send headers with-in a PHP class?

this code works fine when i don’t use OOP

Answer 1

The answer to your question is yes, you can. You can send headers at any time before you send any output to the client, which I suspect is what your issue is.

You can also check the encoding that you’re saving your file in. If you are saving your file as UTF-8, make sure you save it without a byte order mark. This counts as output, and will always be the first character in your file meaning any call to header() will generate a warning.