Display public images

[Anon]

Hi-
I am trying to create a photo album of sort and want to display images from public servers (ie geocities, freeservers, etc), but i am running into problems getting them to load. What i am doing is writing to the src part of an img tag.

<img src="<?echo $url;?>">

This works fine except for the free servers i want it to work with. I've tried print and other commands with no luck. Any ideas?

thanks -andy

[rrijnders]

What you are doing is called <b>hot-linking</b> and will evoke the ire of sysadmin's everywhere. You are eating up their precious bandwidth to make your site look better.

Those servers are probably wise to you and are blocking image requests unless the referencing page is on their server (smart).

In short, don't do it.

-- Rich