Hello,
I've written a script that allows a logged in user to upload up to 5 images at a time. The exact image that was uploaded is stored in the filesystem.. /home/user/images/unchanged
What I was doing was calling them from a dynamic thumbnailer script that I wrote and that worked for a while until traffic started getting heavier.
I decided that instead of creating the thumbnails on the fly, I should create them, store them on the filesystem for calling directly. Done.
One problem i'm having is this: seeing as the thumbnailed images are stored in an offline directory, /home/user/images/thumbs - I can't really call them via a img src tag.
It is somewhat late and i've been eating code for breakfast and dreaming of it late nights so i may be overlooking a way to call them from the offline filesystem and display them via the web.
Can anyone offer any advice on whether it would be possible to display the images from an offline directory or should I just save them to an online directory and call them from there? I've already got a working system doing it that way but I'm actually writing this script for a friend who prefers the images (all of them!) be stored offline as the script modifies them by watermark and doesnt want the originals available to anyone. 😕
