Some code shows as picture in php with Imagemagick

Question

I use imagemagick to show picture in php by this code:

$img=new Imagick('C:/xampp/htdocs/img/core.png');
echo $img;

Instead of showing picture I see some code in browser like this:

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How can I fix this?

Answer 1

You need to tell the browser you issuing and image first and add the appropriate headers:

header('Content-type: image/png');
echo $image;