Won't Show Images

dynamic_desi

Hi,

  It has not been long i started learning php and mysql. Using simple HTML code the same tags show images perfectly. But as soon as i try and integrate them with a php code it has troubles showing the images. As a matter of fact it does not display any images.

 This is what i am trying to do.  :bemused:

<?php
session_start();
include ( 'functions.php');
?>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="main.css" />
</head>
<body>
<table align = "center" border="0" cellpadding ="1" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td class="header" height="70" colspan ="2" valign="bottom">
<a href="templet.php">Login</a> |<a href="main.php"> Home</a> | Back </td>
<td colspan ="1">
<?

$images = '<img src="/var/www/html/usflag.jpg">';

echo $images;

?></td>
</tr>
<tr>

Even tried this

What am i doing wrong????

Any help would be a great favor

thanking you in advance...

dynamic_desi

planetsim

/var/www/html/usflag.jpg

is the file path. Basically when the client sees this they try to find the file on there system located at /var/www/html/usflag.jpg etc. This isnt what you want, you want it to be on the server so depending on what your document_root is e.g. /var/www/html you would need it to be.

./usflag.jpg

say that was in directory images sub directory of html it would be

./images/usflag.jpg

What this corresponds to is http://example.com/images/usflag.jpg which is what you want the server than goes on example.com is located at /var/www/html ./images is the sub directory of the html directory and usflag.jpg is a file in the images directory. So this retrieves the file on the server rather than the client machine.

dynamic_desi

Hi,

Tried to make changes to the path as <img src="http://mydomainname.org/dir/usflag.jpg">, the problem still persists....

Can there be some bug with my php version, that would prevent the script from showing images???? just wondering...

regards

dynamic_desi

hitman6003

do you know what the root directory of your webserver is? The web root is the directory that Apache (or IIS) looks in for the html and php files.

I'm going to guess that it is the /var/www/ which means that if you have your images stored in /var/www/html/images/ to do the link in html you would use <img src="/html/images/image.jpg">

Notice that there is no . in front of the path. Putting a . in front of it tells it go read from the current directory, no dot tells it to read from the web root (which is different from the system root).

dynamic_desi

Hi,

I moved the same image to my webserver's root dir and tried to use this
<?php
echo '<img = src"/usflag.jpg">';
?>

the same script works like a charm on my other windows machine. But my centOS box simply doesn't wanna run it....

its totally out of my scope of php knowledge to troubleshoot this..... 🙁

dynamic_desi

Hi Guys,

thanks a bunch for your help. finally got it working. I moved the image file to apache's web dir and used this

<?php
echo '<img src="/usflag.jpg">' ;
?>

worked fine

thanks again

dynamic_desi

LoganK

BTW, just so you know, nothing in PHP would (or could) prevent images from being shown - since it is server-side, once the HTML is sent to the client it's up to the browser to process and render the HTML.