[SOLVED] Image Never Renders

[spuy767]

I have been trying this for two days now, I just want to run imagecopy to get part of two different images into an image for display.  At any rate, I can get the image to show up if I save it and open it in photoshop, but I can never get it to render in a browser.  Here, is some relatively ugly code using imagecopymerge() that I tried the last time I did it.  It always shows an empty image box, but if get the image properties, it gives me a size of 0 x 0, a bpp of 0, but the filesize is spot on.

 

<?php

  $background = imagecreatefrompng("http://www.tennis-schedule.com/images/visix/Red-Blue_Logo_Three.png");

  $foreground = imagecreatefrompng("http://www.tennis-schedule.com/images/visix/Marriott-Background.png");

  imagecopymerge($background, $foreground, 0, 0, 0, 0, 256, 256, 60);

  header('Content-type: image/png');

  imagepng($background);

  imagedestroy($background);

  imagedestroy($foreground);

?>

 

Edit: Almost forgot, the server is running 4.3.11, with GD 2.0.28

 

 

[cooldude832]

you need some headers saying what kinda image it is such as

<?php
  header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
?>

for a jpeg or png for png etc etc

[spuy767]

  header('Content-type: image/png');

 

 

Thanks for the tip.

 

[cooldude832]

didn't see it buried because its below everything, try forcing it to the top, if you are supressing errors it might not realize the errror and this sounds like a classic header error.

 

Also you might need to look into imagecreate()

[spuy767]

didn't see it buried because its below everything, try forcing it to the top, if you are supressing errors it might not realize the errror and this sounds like a classic header error.

 

I've tried it about everywhere, but I'll put it at the top.

 

 

Nope. . . Still broke.  I always put my header info right before the stream, it's worked on other servers.  Evne running similar configs and versions.

[cooldude832]

hmm tough luck, only idea I can think of is not a good one, that be to save the created image and then reopen it in the same doc then delete given image at footer of doc

[Barand]

Hmm, your code as posted worked fine for me ???

 

Image size 1280 x 720 with a 256 x 256 semi-transparent pink and white image in top left

 

 

Are you placing on page with

 

<img src='myimage.php' >

 

(where myimage.php is the above script)

[spuy767]

I have fixed my problem.  I just installed a real web server, Apache, where I was trying to run PHP on IIS.

[Barand]

FYI -

 

I was running XP/IIS