On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Rick Dwyer <rpdwyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am sending an email with a logo at the top of the email. The source of the image for the logo is: > > http://myurl.com/image.php?id=5 > > Image.php then calls a function that simply returns the following: > > > > $image='<img src="http://myurl.com/images/logo.jpg"; />'; > return $image; > > > > Calling the page directly via the URL http://myurl.com/image.php?id=5 works fine. > But when the email is opened, I get the broken link/image icon even though I can see in my source that the URL which works when loaded into a browser. > > What needs to be done to serve that image to a email client when it is opened? in image.php you should return an image/xxx file and not an HTML tag. try something like this: image.php: $im = imagecreatefrompng("test.png"); header('Content-Type: image/png'); imagepng($im); imagedestroy($im); then in your email you can put: <img src="http://myurl.com/image.php?id=5"; /> -- + http://vipertechnology.dyndns.org () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments + http://vipertechnology.dyndns.org/cotnact/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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