It's possible to "release" images from outside webroot?

[bodhy]

Hi all.
I'm developing my first PHP script, and I'm stuck in this point:

the script shows details (date, etc...) about several files
stored OUTSIDE del "webroot" folder... to this point all goes
fine..

But several of these files stored outside are "JPG" and I want
to display them in the resulting webpage... but I don't know
how...

I've readed somewhere that I can map this folder with an "alias"
from apache, this is pretty clear to me that sould work fine,
but...

There is another "workaround" to do this without the apache alias?
It's posible that the final images won't be all in a single folder
o maybe It will be In diferent folders each time... etc, and editing
the apache.config each time doesn't seems to be the best solve to me.

Any help will be great appreciated.
Best regrads to all.

b:.

[tsinka]

Hi,

you can use a php script as a wrapper to display that images. Put that script inside the source part of e.g. an image tag instead of the image itself.

Example:

Display file:

...
<?PHP
    $file = "/path/to/theimage.jpg";
    $size = getimagesize($file);
    $widthheight = $size[3];
    echo "<img src=\"image.php?file=".urlencode($file)."\" $widthheight>\n";
?>
...

image.php:

<?PHP
  $file = $_GET["file"];
  $size = getimagesize($file);
  $mime = $size["mime"];
  header("Content-Type: $mime");
  @readfile($file);
?>

$size["mime"] is present since php 4.3. If you use an earlier version you might need to set $mime according to e.g. the file extension.

Thomas

[bodhy]

Thanks a lot.
I'll try it...

Semm to be a good solution...

Best regards.
b..

[bodhy]

Thanks a lot tsinka!!!
Worked fine!

Best regards from spain...

b:.