Can't get GD image to display

Question

my code: save this file as captcha.php

    <?php
ob_start();
session_start();
if(!isset($_POST['submit'])){
    echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"captcha.php\">\n";
    echo "<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n";
    echo "<tr><td>Type The Letters You See Below Into the Box</td></tr>\n";
    echo "<tr><td align=\"center\"><img src=\"image.php\"></td></tr>\n";
    echo "<tr><td align=\"center\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"image\"></td></tr>\n";
    echo "<tr><td align=\"center\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Check CAPTCHA\"></td></tr>\n";
    echo "</table></form>\n";
}else {
    $image = $_POST['image'];
    if ($image == $_SESSION['string'])
    {
        echo "<b>Great success!</b>\n";
    }
    else 
    {
        echo "<em>Failure!</em>\n";
    }
}
ob_end_flush();
?> 

save this file as image.php

<?php

session_start();
$img = imagecreatetruecolor(118,80);

$white = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255);
$black = imagecolorallocate($img, 0, 0, 0);
$red = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 0, 0);
$grey = imagecolorallocate($img,150, 150, 150);
$pink = imagecolorallocate($img, 200, 0, 150);
$yellow = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 246, 0);

function randomString($length){
    $chars = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz023456789";
    srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
    $str = "";
    $i = 0;

        while($i <= $length){
            $num = rand() % 33;
            $tmp = substr($chars, $num, 1);
            $str = $str . $tmp;
            $i++;
        }
    return $str;
}

for($i=1;$i<=rand(1,5);$i++){
    $color = (rand(1,2) == 1) ? $pink : $red;
    imageline($img,rand(6,90),rand(6,40), rand(6,90)+6,rand(6,40)+6, $color);
}

imagefill($img, 0, 0, $yellow);

$string = randomString(rand(4,6));
$_SESSION['string'] = $string;

imagettftext($img, 20, 10, 10, 52, $black, "calibri.ttf", $string);
imagettftext($img, 20, 10, 12, 53, $grey, "calibri.ttf", $string);

header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($img);
imagedestroy($img);

?>

go to this address http://www.cufonfonts.com/en/font/12048/calibri and download the font and save it in the same root folder as the to .php files we just created.

NOTE!! THIS WILL WORK ON LOCALHOST BUT IM HAVING A PROBLEM WITH THE image.php file SHOWING UP LIKE THIS -> ����JFIF��>CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v90), default quality ��C $.' ",#(7),01444'9=82<.342��C 2!!22222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222��x"�����}!1AQa"q2���#B��R��$3br� .

THIS ONLY HAPPENS WHEN I TRY AND ADD IT TO THE CMS I CREATED. ALL I NEED TO KNOW IS WHY THIS IS HAPPENING I HAVE A FEELING ITS GOT SOMETHING TO DO WITH "header("Content-type: image/png");" although i could be way wrong. please help me. by the way im am trying to add a email form and have the captcha evaluate it

this is the form i am trying to insert the code into: you can save it as form.php

<?php
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM forms where id = '$formid'");

echo '<h2>'.mysql_result($query, 0, "title").'</h2>';

if(mysql_result($query, 0, "description") != "") {
    echo '<p>'.mysql_result($query, 0, "description").'</p>';
} 
error_reporting(E_ERROR);

?>
<form action="plugins/form_send.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" class="ajax" name="formplugin" id="form_<?php echo $formid; ?>">
<input name="formid" id="formid" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $formid; ?>" />
  <p><span class="required">*</span> = required fields.</p>
  <table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
    <?php 
    $field_labels_col = mysql_result($query, 0, "field_label");
    $field_labels = array();
    $field_labels =(explode('|', $field_labels_col));

    $field_types_col = mysql_result($query, 0, "field_type");
    $field_types = array();
    $field_types =(explode('|', $field_types_col));

    $field_option1_col = mysql_result($query, 0, "field_option1");
    $field_option1 = array();
    $field_option1 =(explode('|', $field_option1_col));

    $field_option2_col = mysql_result($query, 0, "field_option2");
    $field_option2 = array();
    $field_option2 =(explode('|', $field_option2_col));

    $field_validtype_col = mysql_result($query, 0, "field_validtype");
    $field_validtype = array();
    $field_validtype =(explode('|', $field_validtype_col));

    $i = 0;
    while (array_key_exists($i, $field_labels))
    {
    if(!isset($title)) { $title = ''; }
    if($title != $field_labels[$i]) {

    if(isset($field_labels[$i])) { $title = $field_labels[$i]; }
    if(isset($title)) { $stripped = urlify($title); }
    if(isset($field_types[$i])) { $type = $field_types[$i]; }
    if(isset($field_option1[$i])) { $option1 = $field_option1[$i]; }
    if(isset($field_option2[$i])) { $option2 = $field_option2[$i]; }
    if(isset($field_validtype[$i])) { $valid = $field_validtype[$i]; }

    echo '<tr>';
      echo '<td align="left" valign="top">'.$title.'</td>';
      echo '<td align="left" valign="top">';

        // -- INPUT FIELDS --
        if($type == "input") {
            echo '<input name="'.$stripped.'" type="text" id="'.$stripped.'" size="'.$option1.'" maxlength="'.$option2.'" />';
            if($valid != '') { echo '<span class="required">*</span>'; }
        }

        // -- TEXT AREAS --
        if($type == "textarea") {
            echo '<textarea name="'.$stripped.'" cols="'.$option1.'" rows="size="'.$option2.'"" id="'.$stripped.'"></textarea>';
        }

        // -- DROP DOWNS --
        if($type == "dropdown") {
            echo '<select name="'.$stripped.'" id="'.$stripped.'">';
                $l = 0;
                while (array_key_exists($l, $field_labels))
                {
                $thisoption = $field_option1[$l];
                $thistitle = $field_labels[$l];
                if($thistitle == $title) {
                echo '<option value="'.$thisoption.'">'.$thisoption.'</option>';
                }
                $l++;
                }
            echo'</select>';
        }

        // -- RADIO BUTTONS --
        if($type == "radiobutton") {
            $l = 0;
            while (array_key_exists($l, $field_labels))
            {
            $thisoption = $field_option1[$l];
            $thistitle = $field_labels[$l];
            $thisstripped = urlify($field_labels[$l]);
            if($thistitle == $title) {
              echo '<label><input type="radio" name="'.$thistitle.'" id="'.$thisstripped.'" value="'.$option1.'">'.$thisoption.'</label><br />';
            }
            $l++;
            }
        }

        // -- SIMPLE YES / NO --
        if($type == "yesno") {
            echo '<label><input type="radio" name="'.$stripped.'" id="'.$stripped.'" value="Yes">Yes</label>';
            echo '<label><input type="radio" name="'.$stripped.'" id="'.$stripped.'" value="No">No</label>';
        }

        // -- FILE UPLOADS --
        if($type == "fileupload") {
            echo '<input type="file" name="'.$stripped.'" id="'.$stripped.'" size="10"> (2mb limit)';
        }

      echo '</td>';
    echo '</tr>';
    }
    $i++;
    }
?>
    <tr id="comment-div"><td colspan="2"><input name="user-comment" size="3" value="" /></td></tr>

    <tr>
        <td colspan="2">
            <?php if(mysql_result($query, 0, "submit_text") != "") { ?>
                <p><br /><?php echo mysql_result($query, 0, "submit_text"); ?></p>
            <?php } ?>
            <div id="result"><strong>Loading... please wait.</strong></div>
            <!-- <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="<?php echo mysql_result($query, 0, "submit_button"); ?>" /> -->



        </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

Answer 1

I guess the code you posted is not the whole file: try to remove all the content before and after <?php and ?> tags. You could even remove the final tag ?> (it is a style convention adopted by many, because of this very issue).

This affects every other file you are executing: every space, newline or other content outside the PHP tags or echoed by PHP is added to the image content, and ends up with the image corruption. Also PHP notices and warnings are an issue.

For clarity, the executed files format must be:

<?php // nothing before this line
// no other PHP tags till the end
... // PHP code with no echo calls
// no closing tag

---

In your code, you do:

header( "Content-type: image/png" );
# ...
echo "<img src='image/png;base64," . base64_encode( $x )."'>";

You are outputting a PNG sorrounding it with HTML, which inevitably corrupts your image content. You have to remove the HTML (echo $x) and use the image from another file, f.e. with

<img src="png_generator_script.php"/>

Or use the script as HTML page, removing

header( "Content-type: image/png" );

Answer 2

i was faced same problem . Remove all html tag it will 100% work..

save as php file .. index.php

<?php
/**
 * PHP GD
 * create a simple image with GD library
 * 
 */
//setting the image header in order to proper display the image
header("Content-Type: image/png");
//try to create an image
$im = @imagecreate(800, 600)
    or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
//set the background color of the image
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0xFF, 0xCC, 0xDD);
//set the color for the text
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 133, 14, 91);
//adf the string to the image
imagestring($im, 5, 300, 300,  "I'm a pretty picture:))", $text_color);
//outputs the image as png
imagepng($im);
//frees any memory associated with the image 
imagedestroy($im);
?>

instead of...

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>

<?php
/**
 * PHP GD
 * create a simple image with GD library
 * 
 */
//setting the image header in order to proper display the image
header("Content-Type: image/png");
//try to create an image
$im = @imagecreate(800, 600)
    or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
//set the background color of the image
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0xFF, 0xCC, 0xDD);
//set the color for the text
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 133, 14, 91);
//adf the string to the image
imagestring($im, 5, 300, 300,  "I'm a pretty picture:))", $text_color);
//outputs the image as png
imagepng($im);
//frees any memory associated with the image 
imagedestroy($im);
?>
</body>
</html>

Answer 3

This code is working fine. I have tested it locally on chrome & firefox.