Why are my images coming out as garbled text?

[Tony Marston]

I have just moved my website to a new hosting provider as the previous one
went belly-up. Everything is now fine except for one thing - my counter
script which generates a PNG image is sending out garbled text instead of an
image.

This script has been working for months on my desktop and my laptop, and
worked at my previous web host, but is failing with my new hosting company.

PHP version 4.3.3
GD library is reported as 2.0.15 in PHPINFO()

Any ideas out there?

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Tony Marston

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[Shawn Wilson]

Re: Why are my images coming out as garbled text?

Tony Marston wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I have just moved my website to a new hosting provider as the previous one
> went belly-up. Everything is now fine except for one thing - my counter
> script which generates a PNG image is sending out garbled text instead of an
> image.
>
> This script has been working for months on my desktop and my laptop, and
> worked at my previous web host, but is failing with my new hosting company.
>
> PHP version 4.3.3
> GD library is reported as 2.0.15 in PHPINFO()
>
> Any ideas out there?[/color]

You might want to post some code snippets. Does PNG Support = "enabled" in
phpinfo()?
Try commenting out the header("Content-type... line and put
error_reporting (E_ALL); at the top of your script. That should hopefully give
you an error message.

Regards,
Shawn

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Shawn Wilson
shawn@glassgian t.com

http://www.glassgiant.com

[Tony Marston]

Re: Why are my images coming out as garbled text?- SOLVED

It's OK now, I have found the problem. My script used the include()
statement to bring in my database username and password, but somehow when
this include file was uploaded to my host's server an extra blank line
appeared at the end. This blank line was being written to the output stream
before anything else and causing my "header: ('Content-type: image/png');"
to be ignored.

This same include file on my local PC did not have this extra blank line, so
it did not cause a problem.

Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net/

"Shawn Wilson" <shawn@glassgia nt.com> wrote in message
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> Tony Marston wrote:[color=green]
> >
> > I have just moved my website to a new hosting provider as the previous[/color][/color]
one[color=blue][color=green]
> > went belly-up. Everything is now fine except for one thing - my counter
> > script which generates a PNG image is sending out garbled text instead[/color][/color]
of an[color=blue][color=green]
> > image.
> >
> > This script has been working for months on my desktop and my laptop, and
> > worked at my previous web host, but is failing with my new hosting[/color][/color]
company.[color=blue][color=green]
> >
> > PHP version 4.3.3
> > GD library is reported as 2.0.15 in PHPINFO()
> >
> > Any ideas out there?[/color]
>
> You might want to post some code snippets. Does PNG Support = "enabled"[/color]
in[color=blue]
> phpinfo()?
> Try commenting out the header("Content-type... line and put
> error_reporting (E_ALL); at the top of your script. That should hopefully[/color]
give[color=blue]
> you an error message.
>
> Regards,
> Shawn
>
> --
> Shawn Wilson
> shawn@glassgian t.com
> http://www.glassgiant.com[/color]