how to display images from the database

davidklonski

I have read the article in CodeWalkers about how to store and retrieve images from the database.

The article explains that once I have the type of the image and the image itself, then I can display them like this:

Header ("Content-type: $image_type");
print $image;

I would like to be able to display the image within HTML content. Meaning that instead of writing:
...<img src="xxx.jpg"></img>...
I would display that image in that place. Note that the <img> tage may be embedded inside a much more complex html code.

does anyone know how I can make that last move?

thanks in advance

Shrike

Put the following code:

Header ("Content-type: $image_type"); 
print $image;

In a file called image.php. The file would also have to have some means of extracting the required image from the database. Then you simply call the script as the <img> tag source.

<img src="image.php?id=1" />

Where id refers to a row in the database image table.

davidklonski

thanks

everything works now