Return a PHP page as an image

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The PHP Manual has this example:

<?php
// open the file in a binary mode
$name="./img/ok.png";
$fp = fopen($name, 'rb');

// send the right headers
header("Content-Type: image/png");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($name));

// dump the picture and stop the script
fpassthru($fp);
exit;
?>

The important points is that you must send a Content-Type header. Also, you must be careful not include any extra white space (like newlines) in your file before or after the <?php ... ?> tags.

As suggested in the comments, you can avoid the danger of extra white space at the end of your script by omitting the ?> tag:

<?php
$name="./img/ok.png";
$fp = fopen($name, 'rb');

header("Content-Type: image/png");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($name));

fpassthru($fp);

You still need to carefully avoid white space at the top of the script. One particularly tricky form of white space is a UTF-8 BOM. To avoid that, make sure to save your script as “ANSI” (Notepad) or “ASCII” or “UTF-8 without signature” (Emacs) or similar.

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