Store and expose result of latest encoded image.

src/Intervention/Image/Image.php

@@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ class Image
      */
     public $cached = false;
 
+    /**
+     * Result of image after encoding
+     *
+     * @var string
+     */
+    public $encoded;
+
+
     /**
      * Create a new instance of Image class
      *
@@ -1441,11 +1449,11 @@ class Image
                 break;
         }
 
-        $data = ob_get_contents();
+        $this->encoded = ob_get_contents();
 
         ob_end_clean();
 
-        return $data;
+        return $this->encoded;
     }
 
     /**

tests/ImageTest.php

@@ -1748,4 +1748,11 @@ class ImageTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_Testcase
         $this->assertEquals('#00aef0', $img->pickColor(6, 6, 'hex'));
         $this->assertEquals('#f6a609', $img->pickColor(11, 25, 'hex'));
     }
+
+    public function testEncoded()
+    {
+        $img = Image::make('public/test.jpg');
+        $img->encode();
+        $this->assertEquals($img->encoded, $img->encode());
+    }
 }