Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Images #2

elk dolk wrote:
> On 3 February 2010 16:07,   wrote:
> 
>> I currently have all my images referenced by url in my database and stored
>> in a folder/s and I think I will keep it that way...
> 
> ..............................................................
> 
>> If you put the images OUTSIDE of the webroot/docroot/public_html
> folder (whatever you have), then a user cannot directly navigate to
> the file.
> 
> e.g.
>          /home/sites/your_site/public_html/images/image1.jpg
> 
>          http://www.yoursite.com/images/image1.jpg would probably work.
> 
> But ...
> 
> /home/sites/your_site/public_html/getImage.php
> /home/sites/your_site/hidden_images/image1.jpg
> 
>> Now, there is no way I can load image1.jpg from my browser. I have to
> use getImage.php, which I assume would require me to login or
> authenticate myself in some way.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> I have my photos in /public_html/img/gid directory and with this path:
> <img src='http://www.mydomain.com/img/{$gid}/{$photoFileName}' in getImage.php the server displays the photos.
> 
> Now if I put my photos outside of the public_html like this: 
> 
> /hidden_images/img/gid
> 
> what would be the correct path to the photos in the getImage.php script?

Do you mean what url? You'll need a script to pull them from outside the 
document root. The advantage of this is you can do authentication checks 
before displaying the image. The disadvantage is the web-server isn't 
serving the images directly so there will be a slow down.

So you point your images to

getimage.php?image=123456

and getimage.php does your authentication checks if necessary then pulls 
the image back using something like http://www.php.net/fpassthru

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