Displaying photos in PHP

[R Padala]

Hi,

We are building an internet based application that would allow any one
to purchase online (php generated) reports that include a few
photographs.

What is the best way to serve the images so that the user wouldn't get
hold of other images on the webserver?

Thanks in advance,
R Padala

[Alvaro G. Vicario]

*** R Padala escribió/wrote (18 Nov 2005 07:23:48 -0800):

What is the best way to serve the images so that the user wouldn't get
hold of other images on the webserver?

Keep them in a folder out of the public folder tree and write a download
script to serve them.

If your web is under /home/foo/htdocs you can create /home/foo/pictures and
then write a script that:

1) Check credentials
2) Find picture's file name
3) Send appropriate "Content-Type" header
4) Read file and output it to browser

Some helpful functions:

mime_content_type()
getimagesize()
header()
readfile()
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