Re: Hide the real URL

At 7/26/2007 06:18 AM, elk dolk wrote:

I want to hide the real URL to my images by masking it with PHP the code looks like this: $query = "SELECT * FROM table"; $result=mysql_query($query); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo "<img src='http://www.mysite.com/img/{$FileName}'/>"; } if you look at the source in browser you will see: <img src='http://www.mysite.com/img/111.jpg' /> how can I show it like this: <img src='show.php?FileName=111.jpg' />

Your primary script would echo:

        while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
        {
                // get the file name from the data table
                $FileName = $row['filename'];

                // encode the filename to be legal in an URL
                $FileName = urlencode($FileName);

                // download to browser
                echo <<<_

<img src="show.php?FileName=$FileName" /> _;

        }

and the secondary script show.php could use logic such as this:

        // if the querystring contains the expected parameter
        if (isset($_GET['Filename']))
        {
                // get requested filename
                $Filename = 'img/' . $_GET['Filename'];

                        // if that file exists
                        if (file_exists($Filename))
                        {
                                // output to browser, suppressing error message
                                @readfile($Filename);
                        }
        }

Notes: Your sample script included:

        echo "<img src='http://www.mysite.com/img/{$FileName}'/>";

Marking up your images as <img ... /> indicates that you want to use XHTML. XHTML requires that attributes be quoted with double quotes, not single quotes (apostrophes). Use <http://validator.w3.org/> to validate your markup. However, simply reversing the quotes in your statement would result in:

        echo '<img src="http://www.mysite.com/img/{$FileName}"/>';
This would not work because PHP would fail to expand the variable name inside single quotes.  Therefore you'd need to escape the inner quotes like so:
        echo "<img src=\"http://www.mysite.com/img/{$FileName}\"/>";
or use heredoc (<<<...) which I prefer to use because it means not having to escape the quotes.  In a case like this it also means not having to enclose the variable in curly braces:

        echo <<<_

<img src="show.php?FileName=$FileName" /> _; urlencode: http://php.net/urlencode heredoc syntax: http://php.net/heredoc#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc isset: http://php.net/isset file_exists: http://php.net/file_exists readfile: http://php.net/readfile @ Error Control Operator: http://php.net/@ Regards, Paul __________________________ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com