Displaying images

[crazy_jayne]

Hi

I am not a PHP programmer but am tring to use PHP through the Dreamweaver interface. WHich I why I may seem rather stupid.

I would like to display images and this little bit of code works fine when the images are in the same directory as the php file.

[color=blue]<img src="<?php echo $row_Recordset6['Name']; ?>">[/color]

However, I don't seem to be able to get my head around the code required to be able view the images if they are in another diectory.

Can someone please help.

Crazy Jayne

[wildteen88]

If you want to get image/file from another directory you'll either want to use a relative path or an absolute path

[b]Relative path:[/b]
[code=php:0]<img src="../other_dir_name/<?php echo $row_Recordset6['Name']; ?>">[/code]

The ../ goes up one level from the current working direcotry (where the script is running) and then goes into the other_dir_name directory

[b]Absolute path:[/b]
[code=php:0]<?php
$fullPath = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HOST_NAME' . '/other_dir_name/' . $row_Recordset6['Name'];

echo '<img src="http://' . $fullPath . '">';

?>[/code]

Absolute path is where you provide the full path to the file/folder.

[crazy_jayne]

Thanks for such a quick response.

Up and working now - It's easy when you know how!

Cheers
Jayne

[weknowtheworld]

Recordset6 means?

[coffear]

it is just the name they gave to the array which can be anything containing a-z A-Z 0-9 _ as long as it starts with a letter.

The content of the var seems to be an associative array of a row taken from the database.

[cyrixware]

hehehe.. you cannot display images in this source code: <img src="<?php echo $row_Recordset6['Name']; ?>">

wildteen88 is correct. And Recordset6 use for displaying the values or the data in a certain field of your dbase.. :)