base64 image...

[JMason1182]

I've been messing with this all day to no avail....

Ok, what I'm doing is I have a server that my php script sends an XML request to and gets XML data back. I parsed the data and now have a variable with an image (I can get the image in gif, tif, jpg, or even pdf formats) and I need to be able to display that image. That's it! The variable is base64_encoded and so I am using base64_decode in php to decode it, but I can't get it to display as an image. Anyone who knows how to do this or the easiest way to do this would be great.

[merkinmuffley]

lemme get this straight... you have something like this:

$imageData = xmlImageDataThingy();

and you want to show that image data as an image on a web page. I think you could use 2 scripts, one that the user would explicitly request and one that outputs the image.

user requests a page with this code on it:

<img src="phpImage.php?image=myImg">

and phpImage.php is something like this:

header ("Content-type: image/png");
echo xmlImageDataThingy($image);