Re: placing data outside the server root

Well, you couldn't put an image outside the document root, and use a normal HTML tag (<img src="image.gif">) obviously, because the browser wouldn't be able to read it... but you could do "<img src="fetchimage.php?image=image.gif">" and the program fetchimage could go to a directory (not in your document root) and look for the image "image.gif". If it found it, it could pass back the appropriate Content-Type header (in this case image/gif), and then open the image as a file, and start spiting back the binary of the image to the browser. something like this: $file = "/path/to/images/$image"; $imagep = @fopen($file,"r"); if ($imagep) header("Content-type: image/gif"); while(!feof($imagep)) $buffer = fread($imagep,4096); echo $buffer; } fclose($imagep); } Something like that. Good luck, Mike mike@deadmime.com > Hi there, > > is it possible to place data like images outside the server root, and if so > does php still get access to them for displaying? > > thanx, Andy > > > >