Storing Images in Sessions

Cutty382

I have finally got this session thing down and I can carry my variables from forms from on page to the next and display them what I would like to know is if there is a way to carry images from a certain page to say a page at the end of my form which is like a review all content page before someone offically submits the form.

Just as an example say I have a picture which a corresponding button under the picture so that when someone chooses that picture they would select the button then when they come to the end of the form can I display the picture with the "value" on which I gave the button?

I hope I am making sense any and all help would be apprecaited.

Thanks

Cutty

MrPotatoes

no, that doesn't make too much sence but i would say figure out your logic. (1) i'm not sure you can do that (2) i wouldn't do that. figure out your logic for what you actually want to do and then go from there.

hell, post a schematic and i don't mind helping you out a little 😃

Cutty382

what I was trying to say is.. is there a way to save an image file into a session so that you can call to that file on a later page so say if i someone a choice of two pictures A and B and both A and B has a radio button underneath them respectively and someone chooses picture A by selecting the button underneath picture A can I then later show them that they Selected A by not only carrying the button variable through my form but also the image of the picture they selected?

bradgrafelman

First of all, I don't believe you can store/retrieve binary information in a session via cookies, unless you're using the file method for sessions.

That being said, even if it were possible, I wouldn't advise it. Why not just store the URL to the image in the session and use that to display the image?

Jack_McSlay

what you should do is to load the image with readfile or fopen and put it on the session. and then create another php script to read and output it

load:

$_SESSION['image'] = readfile ($imagefile);

display:

echo $_SESSION['image'];

but i'll reinforce what brad said, unless you have a good reason why you need it, storing the path is a lot better.

bradgrafelman

What makes it so difficult is that you can't simply spit out the image in the middle of the page. In order to use the image, you'd have to make a SEPARATE call to the script, like so:

<img src="myscript.php?cmd=getImage" alt="The Image" border="0" />

Why? Because in order to display this image, you'd have to send the appropriate headers.

If you simply stored the path, you wouldn't have to set up your script to be run twice, and instead the browser would simply download the image from the URL stored in the session. Less overhead, less difficulty, etc.

Cutty382

thanks alot even though I am relatively new to all this I understand what you guys are saying and I think that it will be a great help... I really appreciate it.

Cutty