Re: Watermark with GD

"tedd" <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote in message news:p06240800c8f339e20870@[192.168.1.2]... > At 9:19 AM -0400 10/31/10, Gary wrote: >>I was sure that the images were being stored and called from the images >>folder and not directly from the DB, that is until tedd brought it up. I >>did have an issue of getting the images to show in the beginning, however >>I >>solved it by inserting the path in the call from the DB. I am wondering >>now >>if they are stored in both locations. >> >>Gary > > Gary: > > Both locations? I think you are confusing yourself.You either have the > images stored in the database OR the file system, but not both. > > However, I think you have the images stored as files within the file > directory, such as: > > http://yourdomain.com/images/picture1.jpg > > Now, in your database you should have only the path name stored (i.e., > images/picture1.jpg) and not the image. However, I usually only store the > file names and NOT the path. That way I can move the images to where ever > I want and only change their reference in the HTML. > > To recap, to show any image you use the HTML img tag, such as: > > <img src="images/picture1.jpg"> > > To tie this statement to a database, you need to pull out the image name > (or file path) from the database and use that. Something like this: > > $query = "SELECT file_name FROM pictures WHERE id = '$id' "; > $result = mysql_query($query) or die(); > $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); > $file_name = $row['file_name']; > > And then in the HTML you would use: > > <img src="images/<?php echo($file_name);?>"> > > If you can get to this part, then we can deal with placing a watermark on > the image before showing it. > > Please let me know when you get this part to work. > > Cheers, > > tedd > > PS: There is no need to use a LONG BLOB in your database -- that's just a > waste of space. > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com/ tedd Thank you for your reply. I have the images being displayed in the browser fine, my issue was that I was not able to get the watermark to show up. I believe the issue was here $img=imagecreatefromjpeg($_GET['pic']); in that 'pic' is asking for the image that I wanted the watermark displayed on, and what I put in did not work. Since the image file name is being stored in the DB, I tried $row_WADAimages["image_file"] as well as a few others. What do you suggest I changed "longblob" to, and is it safe to do so? Again, thank you for your help. gary __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5579 (20101031) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com