Re: Images from database
| From: | Hugh Bothwell | Date: | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:15:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Images from database | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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> "Randall Barber" <rdb55@email.byu.edu> wrote
>I have seen in several places the following line:
>
> <img src='myScript.php' etc..etc..>
>
> Will this tag work in both IE and Netscape?
Yes
> What does myScript.php do? Does it find an image and pass the binary data
back?
Sure, that's one use; another is to dynamically generate an image.
> Something like this--
>
> <?php
> $fp = fopen(odbc_result($qryResult, "imgPath"), "rb");
> fpassthru($fp);
> fclose($fp);
> ?>
Yes; but you should send a header first, telling the browser what kind of
image it's getting (ie 'Content-type: image/png' or whatever's appropriate).