Re: munge / obfuscate ?

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Joey <Joey@web56.net> wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I have written an app to allow a person to go online and see a picture we > take of them. When we link to the picture I don't want it to be obvious > that the URL is > > Domain.Com/Pix/123.jpg because the next person we take a picture of may be > 123.jpg, so I am trying to munge/obfuscate the URL to make it less > obvious. > > > > Of course coders can figure it out, but we just want to keep out the > normal > people. > > > > Does someone have an obfuscate function which still allows the URL to > work, > but doesn't allow the person to figure it out? > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > The solution here is to store the images in a folder above the web root and then use a php page to read in the requested image ( a hash value should be sufficient (eg <img src='show_image.php?i=a1d3200086d3ec14dae1e40c50f6374f'>Click for image</a> The show_image page can query the database for the true image name, read it in from the folder and pass it to the page hth -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat