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Asghar
Asghar

Reputation: 2346

Displaying Images from from Directory Outside of Webroot

I am new to PHP, I have repository on my linux server, where web is hosted.

I have images folder Like /myfolder/image1-user etc. I want to display that on my web portal album. How can i do this?

EDIT I have iterated the directory where pictures are stored. Now i have array list of path to the images, i used IMG SRC tag to show, but nothing is being shown, also i want URL of the each file in the repository that contains photos, i have link to image like this /myrepo/photos/photos-1/1.jpg and so on

Upvotes: 0

Views: 612

Answers (2)

Jeroen Flamman
Jeroen Flamman

Reputation: 965

symlink!

Say you want to display from your web root, e.g. /imgs/photos and your document root is the default '/var/www'

Then symlink that to the real folder below the webroot, for example:

ln -s /real/path/to/my/photos /var/www/imgs/photos (on command line)

Then, when in your html you use src="/imgs/photos/great-photo.jpg" it will display "/real/path/to/my/photos/great-photo.jpg"

This may not work if you're on a shared hosting virtual server environment with all kinds of restrictions (such as open basedir etc.)

Upvotes: 0

slash28cu
slash28cu

Reputation: 1634

You have to iterate over the folder where your images are stored. 

    <?php

if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {
    echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
    echo "Entries:\n";

    /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
    while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
        echo "$entry<br/>";
    }

    closedir($handle);
}
?>

Upvotes: 1

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