Including images into PHP

Anon

Hello:

Can anyone tell me how to read an image into a PHP script.

Currently I have the script going to the URL of the image. I would like to by-pass this and just include the gif image.

Thanks.

van__

use the filesystem functs to open and read the file to a string,
send out a header declaring it's an image of x type and echo your string.

jesus_hairdo

You could do it easier by just sending the headers then including the image file.(ie include('path/to/my/pic.jpg')

Jamie

Anon

Hello:

Use GD library function ImageCreateFromGIF or ImageCreateFromJPEG to read an image and echo the image header and then call function ImageCreateGIF or ImageCreateJPEG.

The quality of the new image won't be good as the original one.

Alan

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Depends on what you mean.
HTML will only let you put IMG tags in a page, you cannot print the image directly, you must use some sort of URL.

That URL can be a PHP script that outputs the image, but that script can then only output the image and nothing else.

A forum, a FAQ, email notification, what else do you need?