[SOLVED] Making this php file output as a jpg

[rondog]

I am trying to make it so when you go to this php file it generates it and displays the image. I have this right now and according to my browser its a jpg, but I just see a string of text.

 

<?php
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
include "connect.php";

$today = date("Y-m-d");
$today = strtotime($today);

$query = mysql_query("SELECT event_image FROM de_featuredevent WHERE '$today' BETWEEN start_date AND end_date") or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_array($query);
$img = $row['event_image'];

imagecreatefromjpeg("featuredimages/".$img);
?>

 

http://drewestate.com/new/2008/loadfeaturedevent.php

[DeanWhitehouse]

is this the full page code ,and the extension on the image seems to be .php in the page

[rondog]

Yea thats all of the code for that php file. The extension of the image is jpg. The PHP should be able to output a jpeg.

 

$img = $row['event_image']; is going to be equal to event1.jpg

 

so the image path is now:

 

"featuredimages/event1.jpg"

 

and I am using imagecreatefromjpeg to do that. Is that the wrong function? I've tried imagejpeg as well and same thing.

 

 

[papaface]

Your code should work.... hmmm...

[rondog]

Here is my phpinfo file if that tell anything about my GD. It says its installed and JPEG is enabled.

 

http://drewestate.com/new/2008/info.php

[DarkWater]

You're not actually saving the image resource and using imagejpeg() to OUTPUT the image.

[rondog]

oh duh haha..i got it

<?php
include "connect.php";

$today = date("Y-m-d");
$today = strtotime($today);

$query = mysql_query("SELECT event_image FROM de_featuredevent WHERE '$today' BETWEEN start_date AND end_date") or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_array($query);
$src = "featuredeventimages/".$row['event_image'];

header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
$img = imagecreatefromjpeg($src);
$img = imagejpeg($img);
?>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

If you are not actually minupulating the image using GD functions, using GD to open an image an output it is a huge waste of memory and time. Just use the readfile() function.

[DarkWater]

Oh yeah.  I was going to ask why you actually needed GD.

[rondog]

yeah I dont know..thats the first thing that came to mind when I needed to output a file. Im still learning :]

 

readfile sounds like the right way to go