Sending an image to a browser

[Vernon Wenberg III]

I have an image that resides in a directory that isn't accessible on the
web, however I want to be able to send that image via PHP without making
it directly accessible on the web. The URL would be something like this
... image/username/image-name.

The reason I want to do this is so that I can do authentication on the
user before having it pushed to the browser. How would I be able to do this?

[Captain Paralytic]

On 27 Jul, 11:43, Vernon Wenberg III <[e-mail]:

I have an image that resides in a directory that isn't accessible on the
web, however I want to be able to send that image via PHP without making
it directly accessible on the web. The URL would be something like this
.. image/username/image-name.

The reason I want to do this is so that I can do authentication on the
user before having it pushed to the browser. How would I be able to do this?

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php

[Rik]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:50:08 +0200, Captain Paralytic
<pa**********@yahoo.comwrote:

On 27 Jul, 11:43, Vernon Wenberg III <[e-mail]:

>I have an image that resides in a directory that isn't accessible on the
web, however I want to be able to send that image via PHP without making
it directly accessible on the web. The URL would be something like this
.. image/username/image-name.

The reason I want to do this is so that I can do authentication on the
user before having it pushed to the browser. How would I be able to do
this?

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php

And don;t forget to send the right mime-type headers.

(BTW, I assume you allready have a script that determines wether a user is
logged in or not?)

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Rik Wasmus