Display an image

meHere

I upload the address to an image into my db through a form but how do I use this address to display the image on the page.
Thanks
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

rachel2004

Use the <img> tag like you would for any image that you want to display and echo out the path to the image:

$file = "/my_images/picture.jpg"
echo '<img src="$file" alt="my picture" />';

The readfile() function could also be used instead of the HTML <img> tag

meHere

Thanks for the quick response

$Picture is where the path from the form is stored in the db

This is the code I used

$file = $Picture

echo "<td width=7% align=center>"."<img src="$file" alt="my picture"></img> </td>";

But it says

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ',' or ';'

on the line that my echo is on Am i just doing some simple thing wrong

rachel2004

Two things:

you need to make sure you are using semicolons to close your PHP statements.
In your echo statement, do not nest double quotes inside of other double quotes without escaping them. Better yet, use single quotes to enclose what you are attempting to output and use double quotes for each of the values assigned to your HTML attributes in the statement.

The error messages suggests you are missing a semicolon, though. To help you find these, your syntax highlighting when you post by insertint your code in between the vBCode tags like this:

$file = $Picture;
 echo '<td width="7%" align="center"><img src="'.$file.'" alt="my picture" /></td>';

When you post, notice that there are buttons for smiley faces and a button that says PHP. Use it.