[SOLVED] Get image and display it(something faster thand GD)

[shedokan]

I am trying to get an image from a file and display it, I found this script very slow:

<?php
header('Content-type: image/png');
$im = imagecreatefromjpeg('image.jpg');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

 

is there a faster way?

[rhodesa]

can it be in the native JPG format? And is there a reason it's in a PHP script?

 

<?php
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
readfile('image.jpg');
?>

[shedokan]

yes, because I use images like images/1.jpg and I don't want people to be able to browse trough them.

 

I save the image path in a session.

 

and thanks.