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Re: [PHP] accessing files not in www root directory. From: Chris Anderson (chrisderson <email protected>)
Date: 06/27/01

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From: "Sterling Anderson" <sterling <email protected>>
To: <php-general <email protected>>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 12:05 AM
Subject: [PHP] accessing files not in www root directory.

> Hi,
> I am trying to write a page that will perform a select on a DB and get the
> path and file name of an image. Then display the image.
> The DB part if fine but I am having difficulty figuring out how to get the
> images to display. For example:
>
> result from select:
> $file_path = "/home/pics/friends/"
> $file_name = "bob.jpg"
>
> Now, say my web root directory is "/etc/http/wwwroot"
>
> How do I create a link to my file "/home/pics/friends/bob.jpg"?
> I tried symlink() but the link created appears to hang around after it is
no
> longer needed.
>
> By the way, this is a Linux server running Apache.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sterling Anderson
> sterling <email protected>
>
>
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