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[PHP3] using PHP to "pipe" image files From: Zeba Kimmel (zkimmel <email protected>)
Date: 01/30/99

Hello, all. Here is an interesting question.

I want to pipe non-HTML files, let us say image files, directly through php. How can I do this?

For example, let's say I type into my browser the URL "getimage.php3?name=myimage.jpeg". What I want is for getimage.php3 to return the file "myimage.jpeg" as an image. Something like this:

# contents of getimage.php3
<?php

header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");

$fp=fopen($name,"r");
fpassthru($fp);
fclose($fp);

# or could use readfile($name)

?>
# end

Then I can embed HTML tags that look like this:

<IMG src="getimage.php3?name=myimage.jpeg">

and voila, such a tag will result in the browser displaying the image contained in "myimage.jpeg".

The only problem is, the code above doesn't work, and I don't know why. I would be grateful for any advice.

Thanks!

--Zeba Kimmel, zkimmel <email protected> 

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Zebadiah Kimmel
zkimmel <email protected>

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