Using Remote Image Files

by **Devon** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:20 pm

I have a Q that I hope is easy to answer... is there a simple way to serve gif images from a remote folder via url? Here's what I mean.. I was making a gallery of 102 x 116 images for a chat program I hang out in... the standard old make a loop, make a table, load the images, throw in a next/previous link kinda deal. The script works fine if the images are actually on my server. Is there any way to serve these gif files up from a remote server, say angelfire or whatever? I've got about 600 meg of em, and would hate to pay for the extra space...

Any ideas would be helpful, I'm new to this and truly stumped. Everything I've read so far on image files needs a path on my own server, I need to use a url...

by **liquedus** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 6:39 pm

the answer to your question is this:

<img src="http://www.somehost.com/yourpic.gif" />

that is, if i understand your question correctly.

by **Devon** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 10:37 am

Actually.. I got that part...

What I meant was is there any way to load the images files into an array from a remote folder... I can do this locally with fopen, using a relative path, ei... /usr/local/apache/images. What I need to be able to do is the same, but by using a Url. If there was a way for me to load an array up with the image file names, I can just serve them with print() or echo(). The problem is, and maybe I'm just staring the answer in the face, I can't seem to be able to figure out how to access a remote directory via URL and retrieve a listing of the image file names. Hope that clarifies it for someone.