Re: accessing files not in www root directory.

you may want to send this as a NON-reply, because many people view mail by grouped threads, and thus would miss your question Original Message ----- From: "Sterling Anderson" <sterling@sterlinganderson.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 12:05 AM Subject: [PHP] accessing files not in www root directory. > Hi, > I am trying to write a page that will perform a select on a DB and get the > path and file name of an image. Then display the image. > The DB part if fine but I am having difficulty figuring out how to get the > images to display. For example: > > result from select: > $file_path = "/home/pics/friends/" > $file_name = "bob.jpg" > > Now, say my web root directory is "/etc/http/wwwroot" > > How do I create a link to my file "/home/pics/friends/bob.jpg"? > I tried symlink() but the link created appears to hang around after it is no > longer needed. > > By the way, this is a Linux server running Apache. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Sterling Anderson > sterling@sterlinganderson.net > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >