Imagick doesn't read image, does not output any errors or warnings

Question

I'm trying to read an image with Imagick, I'm using this code on PHP:

<?php

if(extension_loaded('imagick')) {
    echo "Imagick Loaded <br>";
}
else {
    echo "Imagick Not Loaded <br>";
}  

function scaleImage()
{

    $realpath = "D:\Tentacle1.png";
    $imagick = new \Imagick($realpath);

    var_dump($imagick);
}

scaleImage();



?>

The output is this:

Imagick Loaded 
object(Imagick)#1 (0) { }

Basically, it does not read the image, it just loads an empty object.
It does not give me any errors or warnings.
PHP log doesn't show any errors or warnings either.
I have tried reading the file contents with this (https://stackoverflow.com/a/16091295/2724978) - no success
This test works: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22438898/2724978
Image is on the right path, the file name casing is correct
I'm on Windows
Tried with another file and different extension (JPG), no success either
ImageMagick extension shows normally on php_info():

This is incredibly frustrating, I ran out of options to fix it. Could someone help a brother out?

One thing that may be causing an issue is the use of the '\' character in the path name... this is the escape character and as such you should either escape it like D:\\Tentacle1.png or just replace it with '/' — Orangepill, Mar 27 '17 at 05:06
I tried installing updating PHP to 7 and Installing Imagick. Still no success, If I replace with / or \\ also has no change. — sigmaxf, Mar 27 '17 at 05:25
I also found that passing an invalid path will raise an error, so the path is valid, the image is there, it's just not reading it. — sigmaxf, Mar 27 '17 at 05:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 27 '17 at 05:50

Ok guys, I knew I'd feel like an idiot, the problem was that I'm outputting

echo "Imagick Loaded <br>";

before

header("Content-Type: image/jpg");

So I'd always have a blank file. Gosh.

Aside from that, apparently the imagick object is indeed an array of (0) elements, or whatever is showing this output that was confusing me:

object(Imagick)#1 (0) { }

2 hours later, problem solved.

Imagick doesn't read image, does not output any errors or warnings

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