PHP GD live edit image using Ajax
<p>I have a form where I POST some variables to make an image (text, padding, background image and text position)</p>

<pre><code>&lt;form id="form" action="img.php" method="post" name="form"&gt;
&lt;label&gt;text&lt;/label&gt; &lt;textarea name="text"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
&lt;label&gt;Author&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input name="author"&gt;&lt;/input&gt;
&lt;label&gt;text padding&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="number" name="padding" min="10" max="200" value="30"&gt;
text-align:
&lt;input type="radio" name="align" value="1"&gt; left
&lt;input type="radio" name="align" value="0" checked="yes"&gt; center
&lt;input type="radio" name="align" value="2"&gt; right
&lt;select name="background"&gt;
&lt;option&gt;- select image -&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;?php $range = range(0, 177);
foreach ($range as $key) { ?&gt;
&lt;option id="img" value="src/img&lt;?php echo $key;?&gt;.jpg"&gt;src/img&lt;?php echo $key;?&gt;.jpg&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;?php } ?&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;
&lt;input class="btn btn-success" type="submit" value="submit"&gt;&lt;/input&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;

&lt;div id="result"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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<p>The script works very well when I send those variables to the img.php file. I wanted to do a live modification on the same page, like an image editor with ajax, but when I run this script</p>

<pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
    $(document).ready(function(){
        // loader
        $().ajaxStart(function(){
            $('#loading').show();
            $('#result').hide();
        }).ajaxStop(function(){
            $('#loading').hide();
            $('#result').fadeIn('slow');
        });
        // post submit values
        $('#form').submit(function(){
            // ajax
            $.ajax({
                type: 'POST',
                url: $(this).attr('action'),
                data: $(this).serialize(),
                success: function(data) {
                    $('#result').html(data);
                }
            })
            return false;
        });

    })

&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>This error comes up on the html file and I can't get the image:</p>

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<p>How can I get the image with ajax?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>

<p>The img.php works fine when I submit those variables to the img.php window on the browser but its kinda extense to post it here, this is a sample:</p>

<p>img.php</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php 
require_once("functions.php");
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");

// Settings
$fontSize = 28;
$font = "./fonts/Oswald-Medium.ttf";
$fontlogo = "./fonts/Quicksand-Bold.otf";

$background = $_POST['background'];
$text = $_POST['text'];
$author = $_POST['author'];
$padding = $_POST['padding']; //from edges
$align = $_POST['align'];

.
.
etc
.
.

$md = md5($background).".jpg";
imagejpeg($im, './images/'.$md);
imagejpeg($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?&gt;
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<p>The problem it's on the ajax script to make a live edit of those variables and generate de image on the same window.</p>