Graphics in PHP

This is with regard to an earlier thread I submitted.

Can variable hold graphics. I now have this working with the help of you guys but I am doing something very stupid here and I don't know what.

this is the code I am using to set my variable

$var1 = hello.gif;

hello.gif is in the same directory as the calling script which is 2 sub-directories down from my root. i.e

root\rec\php\hello.php
root\rec\php\hello.gif

I want to store the hello.gif file in a directory for my gif file i.e

root\gif\hello.gif

I have tried all ways to get this to work, like the following:

Yes I know I am having a stupid day.

Can anyone tell me the correct code for this, many thanks.

DCJ

If the image is in the same directory, the variable assignment should look like this ...

$var1 = "img src='hello.gif'";

I would consider not including the img src part though, and maybe do it like this (depending on how you are using the value) ...

$var1 = "hello.gif";
echo "<img src=\"$var1\">";