Display an image with PHP

Anon

I have an simple HTML page in which I want to display a webcam image with PHP, using server push. i found some examples on the net, but I haven't been able to display the image properly. The script looks like this :

<?php
$end = "Finish"; // random string
header ("Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=$end");
print ("--$end\n"); //Start data block
print ("Content-type: image/jpeg\n"); //Define content type
$filename = "geii.jpg"; //Picture
$pic = fopen($filename, "r");

fpassthru($pic);
flush();
fclose($pic);
clearstatcache();
sleep(1);
print("\n--$end--\n");

?>

and the image is loaded as <IMG SRC="camera.php" WIDTH=75>

Can someone tell me what's wrong?

Thank you

webmaster02

Why are you using PHP for this? You could just do a simple HTML file:

<HEAD>
<TITLE>WebCam Image</title>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<IMG SRC="geii.jpg" WIDTH=75>
</BODY>

By sending the whole thing through PHP, you end up bogging down your server and also slowing down the loading time by sending all the data to the parser.

Hope this helps

Brad Taylor
Senior Webmaster
BradCom Industries LTD
brad_at_getcoded.net(replace at with @)