Display php generated images from database

[Xdes]

Hello ,

I would like to display pictures with displaying the actual picture with php.
I found out that it is pretty easy to do this with 1 picture and a copyright watermark, also thumbnails are easily created from a large image.

My question:
Now I have a database(mysql) that contains filenames+paths of all images, now I would like to display 10 thumbnails at a time on each page with using a pagination system.
I'm thinking about displaying the (PHPimages within IFRAMEs, that is not a problem, the problem is:
How do I get an image path+filename (from the database) on my "image.php" file?
Or it maybe impossible..?

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Ofcourse I could just show the images the easy way without php generated images, but the reason that I want to use php generated images is because:

- Make the loading time much faster (smaller file size)
- I can easily use a copyright image without modifying the original images.

Thats why I want to use PHP generated images.

Another question, does this code work for both PHP 4 and 5?

Can anyone help me out?

See the code I use:

This code is to get the image file name + the path from the database:

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<? echo $row_phqs['location'] ?><? echo $row_phqs['file']; ?>

How do i put that code into this :

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<?php
$img = imagecreatefromjpeg('How do i get the path of my image source here');
.......................................
?>

Who can me out?

Or is it impossible the way i want to do this?

[gesf]

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<?php

$img_path = $row_phqs['location'] . $row_phqs['file'];
$img = imagecreatefromjpeg($img_path);

?>

[Xdes]

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<?php

$img_path = $row_phqs['location'] . $row_phqs['file'];
$img = imagecreatefromjpeg($img_path);

?>

Thanks for your solution, but it did not work..

With using this code I get an "headers already sent" error.

It works for 50%, I see the images in the iframes, only they are in TEXT format, i should be in IMAGE/JPEG, the problem has to do with "headers already sent".

Any other solution?

[Alexei Kubarev]

the problem is that you have to send those headers before anything else.

There are several ways, one of them would be setting output_buffering to on in php.ini
You may also want to use php internal buffering: ob_start(), ob_end(), ob_get_content(), ob_clean() and so on are prety usefull

[gesf]

Oh! Ok... do what Alexei said

[Alexei Kubarev]

hehe gesf ;)