[SOLVED] Forcing .php through img tag.

[thecard]

<img src="counter.php" height="50" width="450" border='0' />

 

The .php file echos an image with a variable echoed on top of the image.

But all that appears on the page is the firefox sign meaning broken link or something...

But when I right click the empty image and click "view image" I see the image in a new window how it should be so it isn't a broken link.

I know this can be done.

Where am I going wrong  ????

Thanks for any help.

thecard

[gevans]

can you post counter.php?

[thecard]

echo'<img src="images/hitcounter2.png" /> ';

 

For now that is all it is.

In the future it will echo the var on top of it.

[gevans]

<?php
header("Content-type: image/png");
return "images/hitcounter2.png";
?>

 

Try using that in place of the current echo statement

[thecard]

That didn't work.

Still the symbol of a broken link.

But now when I click "view image" all that shows in the new window is text saying the url /counter.php.

.

Thanks for the thought though.

[gevans]

<?php
header("Content-type: image/png");
echo "images/hitcounter2.png";
?>

 

That works on my machine

[thecard]

Using that code mine comes up with:

'The image “counter.php” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.'

 

agh.

Why? It's not the image I'm using, I've tried others...and this one is fine anyway!

This is annoying.

[gevans]

<?php
echo "images/hitcounter2.png";
?>

 

try it with just the src

[thecard]

Then it just echos the string:

images/hitcounter2.png .

[gevans]

<img src="counter.php" height="50" width="450" border='0' />

 

with the image tag it shouldn't echo the code, it should just show the image

[thecard]

But it doesn't

[PFMaBiSmAd]

After the image header is output, you need to read and output the contents of the image file. readfile() is the simplest way -

 

http://us3.php.net/readfile

[thecard]

Thats AWESOME.

Only problem is, how am I going to write a string onto (as in over) that image now from the counter.php file?

[MadTechie]

Heres a basic example that may help

<img src="counter.php?c=10" height="50" width="450" border='0' />

 

<?php
header("Content-type: image/png");
$Count = (int)$_GET['c'];
$im = imagecreatefrompng("images/hitcounter2.png");
$tc  = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, $Count, $tc);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
exit();
?>

[thecard]

Thanks sooo much to everyone in this thread!

Your very helpful, good people.

When I'm good enough to help people on the forums as you are, I will lots and lots to repay my dept to this great community.