Re: Secure Image Storage

Well if you have the GD libs installed you could do something with imagecreatefromjpeg() and just send a header with the following before the page is displayed. header("Content-Type: image/jpeg"); 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?