Re: how to show an image from database

Carina wrote:
> I'm trying to show an image that I'm getting from the database. I'm able to
> get the instructions for the pictures. But I need to get it into an image
> and show it in HTML.
>
> Carina

I don't know if you can do it in PHP but what you want to do is write a
separate page where you set the MIME type of the page to image/gif (or
whatever)* and then write out the bytes of the image (assuming it is the
image you have stored in the db and not just its name/location) then you
can reference this from other pages like:

<img src="/image.php?db_id=324" />


And that gets image 324 from the db. And of course the db_id can be
dynamically generated in the non-image PHP page or even in the image one
if you pass in criteria.

Does that make sense?

T

* = I'm being a bit vague here because I'm not sure exactly what you do
in PHP. There's probably some kind of ResponseType method on the
Response object (if there is such a thing in PHP!)