On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:36 -0400, Bastien Koert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Joey <Joey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I have written an app to allow a person to go online and see a picture we > > take of them. When we link to the picture I don't want it to be obvious > > that the URL is > > > > Domain.Com/Pix/123.jpg because the next person we take a picture of may be > > 123.jpg, so I am trying to munge/obfuscate the URL to make it less > > obvious. > > > > > > > > Of course coders can figure it out, but we just want to keep out the > > normal > > people. > > > > > > > > Does someone have an obfuscate function which still allows the URL to > > work, > > but doesn't allow the person to figure it out? > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > The solution here is to store the images in a folder above the web root and > then use a php page to read in the requested image ( a hash value should be > sufficient (eg <img > src='show_image.php?i=a1d3200086d3ec14dae1e40c50f6374f'>Click for image</a> > > The show_image page can query the database for the true image name, read it > in from the folder and pass it to the page Save yourself the database trip and just stick the id AND the hash in the URL and validate upon request. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
