Thanks for the information Warren. I am actually already passing parameters to the page for the file types (at least I was in ASP and will now do so in PHP as well) and I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to get the image created with your recommendations below now that I enabled the GD libs and verified they're working with a var_dump of gd_info(). What my problem really is right now is I can't seem to use the filesystem objects to open an image file from somewhere on my drive. What I'd like to do just to test is at least display the filesize of an image (for the content-length header and to display the filesize of an image on my page) and I can't seem to get it to work. I've tried using fopen, fread, readfile, and others but honestly I'm still very new and not sure how to go about doing this so not even sure which object I need. Can you or someone suggest how I can access an image file on my drive which is not part of the http-accessible directories (say in C:\images\somepic.jpg) and display the filetype? I think once I can at least get that to work, the rest should be fairly simple. FYI - I'm running PHP 5.0.2 , http server is Apache 2.0.51, and o/s is Win2K Server. Thanks again, and cheers. Armando -----Original Message----- From: Warren Vail [mailto:warren@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: November 1, 2004 1:37 AM To: Armando; PHP Windows List Subject: RE: Displaying An Image / Non-Web accessible Dir I would thing you could do something similar using the GD "image" functions, http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php in your html page code <img src="path/to/imagemodule.php"> and this module would basically; 1. determine the type of image (jpec, gif, etc) (note you can pass ?parms in get format to your imagemodule in the src reference above) 2. output the correct mime headers for that type of image http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php header('Content-type: image/jpeg'); header('Content-Length: $len'); 3. $img = imagecreatefromxxx("/full/path/to/image/file.xxx") where xxx is the type of image ----- here you have an opportunity to do all kinds of things like resize the image to a thumbnail, add text overlays, etc. 4. imagexxx($img); where xxx is the type of image actually will output the image behind the headers ....that's all there is If there are better PHP options, hopefully someone will provide them here. Good Luck, Warren Vail -----Original Message----- From: Armando [mailto:dijital@xxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 10:29 PM To: PHP Windows List Subject: Displaying An Image / Non-Web accessible Dir Greetings! I'm porting all my old ASP websites to PHP and have run into a small problem. One of my pages is a gallery in which images can (should) only be viewed by authenticated users in my MySQL database. The images are stored in a non-web accessible directory. For example.. say my root website is in 'C:\www\webroot' and the gallery images are in 'C:\www\gallery'. On my ASP page what I did was have the <img> tag call to an ASP page which would open the file from the actual location on the disk, then stream it to the page. ASP's filesystemobject and adodb stream references open the file and do a binary-write to the page to display the image. Since the page is ASCII and the image data is binary, you cannot mix the two on the same page, hence the reason for the <img> tag calling to a separate ASP page. Now my problem is I'd like to do the same thing in PHP but am not exactly sure how to go about doing this. I've tried a number of the filesystem references, but have had no luck so far. I'm assuming I have to do a similar thing by having my <img> tag call to a PHP page to get the image, which is easy enough, but I can't figure out how to display the image from that page. I'm just not familiar enough with PHP yet to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers. Armando -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
