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Mikko-Pentti Einari Eronen
Mikko-Pentti Einari Eronen

Reputation: 995

How to display photo from non-public folder?

I have built my website in a way so that the actual database files are positioned as follows

root/
root/httpdocs <- public folder
root/databasefolder/actual_files_here/some_photo.jpg

How can I implement so that the php can view/load a photo from that databasefolder and echo it with tag. I simply tried "../databasefolder/" in a tag, but it doesn't work (of course it doesn't), since it's from hidden folder.

I tried Base64 which works in other browsers, but not with Internet Explorer, due to that silly kb limit.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1550

Answers (1)

hildende
hildende

Reputation: 847

In your HTML:

<img src="image.php?image=some_photo.jpg" />

And a php script that echoes your image.

header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
echo imagejpeg('root/databasefolder/actual_files_here/' . $_GET['image']);

You can use the get parameter "image" to load whatever image you need from that folder.

Upvotes: 2

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