Re: Secure Image Storage

Kevin Murphy wrote:

Hello all, Following up with my success last week with putting downloadable files in a directory above the web root and then using a combination of fopen and stuff to download the file, I am now trying to do something similar with images. However, what I am trying to do is to put an image file above the web root, then use PHP to display that image in the web page, and not download it. I have the feeling that this isn't possible (all solutions I've seen involve using header() function, which won't work since this is midway down the page), but I wanted to make sure. This will return the binary source of the file: print file_get_contents($file_path); but doesn't display the image. Is there any way to have this (or something else) generate the image?

What I get from the text above is that you're trying to actually display the image *inside* the HTML, which you can't do. You need to link to the "image" (which may be an image fetcher script), for example: <img src="image.php?img=123456" /> And have a corresponding "image.php" script that does the header and binary output. jon