CI3 Encrypt/Decrypt Images

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Encode Decode image using PHP

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I have disable the encrypt/decrypt portion of my code leaving just the base64_encode/decode portions and am still getting the above stated response. Here is the pieces I am using:

# open file to read it
$fhr = fopen($path_file, 'r+b');

# read entire file contents
$file_as_text = fread($fhr, filesize($path_file));
$type = pathinfo($path_file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);

# encode
$file_as_text = 'data:image/' . $type . ';base64,' . base64_encode($file_as_text);

# open for writing
$fhw = fopen($path_file, 'w+b');

# write the file
fwrite($fhw, $file_as_txt);

#On decode
$cipher_txt = fread($fh, filesize($path_file));

# decode
$arr_data = explode(',', $cipher_txt);
$plain_txt = base64_decode($arr_data[1]);

# display
$image_resource = imagecreatefromstring($plain_txt);

if( $image_resource !== False )
{
        header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
        header("Content-length: " . (string)(filesize($path_file)));
        imagejpeg($image_resource);
}

Again, Thanks for looking. Second brain is always useful.