hello,
you can also go this way ......
image.php
<?
Header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
$pic = "flower.jpg";
echo file_get_contents ($pic);
?>
show.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="index.php" width="419" height="371" />
</body>
</html>
On 9/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Halliday"
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to display images in an html page using a
> php script.
> The output on the screen is bizarre :)
>
> This code works on its own:
> <?
> $pic = "flower.jpg"
> echo file_get_contents ($pic);
> ?>
>
> the above actually displays the image flower.jpg
> without a problem.
>
> But when I include the same script in an html page
> the screen is filled with all sorts of characters
>
> Something like this:
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/jpg;
> charset=windows-1252">
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
>
> <?
> $pic = "flower.jpg"
> echo file_get_contents ($pic);
> ?>
>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
> Have tried another charset e.g. "charset=utf-8"
> instead of "charset=windows-1252",
> but to no avail.
>
> What is the problem? Is there a way of getting the
> image to work via php *inside* an html document?
>
> Would greatly appreciate your help!
>
> David
> --------------------------
> Hello David,
> A html document can only contain html. You have to link
> to the image as you normal do.
>
> If your image script is called image.php then do it this way -
> <html><head></head><body>
> <img src="image.php" alt="image">
> </body></html>
> I you need to identify the image in some way you can pass data with a get
> method -
> image.php -
> <?php
> $file = $_GET["file"];
> echo(file_get_contents($file);
> ?>
> <html><head></head><body>
> <img src="image.php?flower.gif" alt="dynamic image">
> </body></html>
> The above is just an example and is not a secure way to do this.
>
> Also the image will not display correctly in all browsers unless you send
> the correct mime type headers.
> Look up header() at php.net
>
> You didn't mention file names so I assume that the extension for the
> script
> is .php or the like. It would be a very bad thing if the script was named
> with the extension .jpg or an image type as you server would be parsing
> all
> image files for php script.
>
> Thanks, Rob.
>
>
>
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