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Orsov's avatar
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Laravel 9 PHP 8.1.6 Response blank image

Hi

I upgraded laravel from 7 to 9 and php from 7.4 to 8.1.6. Now I have problem with get photo from server response without using Storage. I use library "intervention/image": "^2.6"

"Short" code from my Controller

return Image::make($imagePath)->response();

$imagePath is valid but when get photo from Controller I see blank image :/

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jlrdw's avatar

Did you follow each one of the upgrade guides?

Orsov's avatar
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@jlrdw yes. I found way to fix it. Before return $response I set ob_end_clean() and now i have valid photo. I thnik that is problem with buffor with response request

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Snapey
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@Orsov you may have some stray characters in one of your files, before the opening php tag that is getting echoed to the output buffer

take a careful look at the content of other pages using browser developer tools, is there a character or characters before the opening html tag?

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Orsov's avatar
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@Snapey nice, very thanks. In configuration file from folder config I had empty char before tag <?php

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