I've put this on my fetch.php <?php header('Content-Type: image/gif'); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Content-Length: '. filesize('image/'.$_GET['id'])); readfile('image/'.$_GET['id']); unlink('image/'.$_GET['id']); ?> I can see the image but can't print it. Am I doing the filesize correctly? -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Smith [mailto:kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:40 PM To: Bill Bolte Cc: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: base64 encoded images and printing Hi Bill, This is what I've used for the last 4 years or so and works in every browser that I've come across, obviously the data is being called from a database instead. <?php //snippet $query = "select bin_data, file_type from content_images where image_id=".$_GET['id']; $result = mysql_query($query); $line = mysql_fetch_array($result) ; $data = $line[0]; $file_type = $line[1]; header("Content-Type: $file_type"); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Content-Length: '. strlen($data)); print($data); ?> <img src="foobar.php?id=12345" /> The important thing here is the headers "Content-Transfer-Encoding" and "Content-Length", which is why IE6 does not work, as without these the browser gets all upset that it doesn't know the true size of the image not the proper encoding of the file, this obviously being an image. It's good practice to put these headers in anyway. Hope this helps. Regards, Kevin Smith Bill Bolte wrote: > Update, I have it working in IE7 but not IE6. I can view it in both > IE6-7, but it only prints in IE7. here's what I'm doing... > > <?php > //snippet > $outputfile = $shipid.'.gif'; > $ifp = fopen('tmp/'.$outputfile, "wb"); fwrite($ifp, > base64_decode($image)); fclose($ifp); echo '<img > src="fetch.php?id='.$outputfile.'" />'; ?> > > fetch.php is thus, read file and delete: > > <?php > //snippet > header('Content-Type: image/gif'); > readfile('image/'.$_GET['id']); > unlink('image/'.$_GET['id']); > ?> > > anyone have any other ideas to try? > __________________ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Bolte [mailto:billb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:29 AM > To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: base64 encoded images and printing > > in a nutshell, i'm displaying a base64 encoded image (that is being > parsed from a remote xml file) in the browser doing a simple header > output: > > <?php > header('Content-Length: '.$length); > header('Content-Type: image/gif'); > echo base64_decode($image); > ?> > > it will print fine with Firefox but nothing in IE (just a box with an > x in the corner). didn't realize that IE wouldn't print these. am i > stuck with having to save the image to the server for IE to be able to > print it? i didn't really want to have to save these images out as > they are temporary. > > Bill > > -- > 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