Directly display a file within a PHP file.

[DarkLaika]

Hey there. Now I've been wondering how to do this for a while, I'm really quite confused. I need to have a PHP file that automatically displays a file. E.g.

http://www.example.com/file.php?file=image1

I need a script that would allow me to do this:

<img src="http://www.example.com/file.php?file=image1" />

and that would display an image. Same for CSS sheets, or any other file for that matter. Basically, the PHP file needs to be the image, if you get me.

Sorry if I've phrased this badly.

Thanks!

[Fou-Lu]

Served as an image. Simply push a header to adjust the content type to that of the data being output. In the case of a png for example it would be header('Content-type: image/png');. CSS doesn't need to be changed as its still an inherit of text/plain.

Once you access file.php, it uses the querystring to fetch the file itself, and then pulls the data from the file using a filereading technique (file_get_contents, fopen, readfile, fpassthru, fread, etc), and prints the binary as the returned result.

[Lamped]

I'd like to add: Never, ever use something like file_get_contents($_REQUEST['something']) - you should at least use:

PHP Code:

echo(file_get_contents('source_folder/' . basename($_REQUEST['something']))); 


Otherwise people can read hidden parts of your website by calling your script with ?something=index.php or similar.