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Returning junk when using imagecreatefrompng()
I have a IIS server running php 5.4.9
I have added the extension path of where I put the php_gd2.php and added "extension = php_gd2.php" on my php.ini
When I fun the following script:
I get a bunch of junk on my browser. that looks like png code.
‰PNG IHDRÉ ŸÅ IDATxœí{y´eWYçoOgºço¨¹*y•
Any suggestions?
I have added the extension path of where I put the php_gd2.php and added "extension = php_gd2.php" on my php.ini
When I fun the following script:
<?php
$string = 'TEST TEXT';
$im = imagecreatefrompng("images/backtoa_manager.png");
$orange = imagecolorallocate($im, 220, 210, 60);
$px = (imagesx($im) - 7.5 * strlen($string)) / 2;
imagestring($im, 3, $px, 9, $string, $orange);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>I get a bunch of junk on my browser. that looks like png code.
‰PNG IHDRÉ ŸÅ IDATxœí{y´eWYçoOgºço¨¹*y•
Any suggestions?
ASKER
I tried that before but this is all i see. 
this is my code now
this is my code now
<?php
header('Content-Type: image/png');
$string = 'testing';
$im = imagecreatefrompng("http://192.168.0.117/images/backtoc_manager.png");
$orange = imagecolorallocate($im, 220, 210, 60);
$px = (imagesx($im) - 7.5 * strlen($string)) / 2;
imagestring($im, 3, $px, 9, $string, $orange);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
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ASKER
Thank you . That did it. The image is showing up with text perfectly now.
The problem is that the browser doesn't realize that the data is a PNG image (as opposed to just html/text, which is what a PHP file normally returns)
You must send the correct MIME headers so that the browser renders the data as a PNG instead of just displaying it as raw text.
See the example here:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagepng.php
The appropriate call for the content-type header for a PNG graphic is:
header('Content-Type: image/png');