[SOLVED] Php Code in a .gif?

[AbydosGater]

Hey Guys,

I have heard of it being done, But i cant quite figure out how its done.

I would like to make a .gif that would maybe have a mail() or something in it.

Would anyone know how to do this please?

 

Andy

[ToonMariner]

Hey Guys,

I have heard of it being done,

 

Where? I would LOVE to see it

[effigy]

You can make a php file that would call mail, then open a .gif, then pass it through with gif headers. I think that's the only possibility.

[AbydosGater]

Ok, Thanks how exactly could i go about doing that?

[GingerRobot]

Dont think its really what you're after, but you could set up apache to parse files with .gif extensions as php files. Wouldn't really be a gif file, but yeah. I was messing around with it because i wanted a dynamic picture on my myspace - and they wont allow images with .php extensions.

[Salis]

The work around I know of is a  Folder named something like image.gif and in that folder you have an index.php file that has a image/gif header.

 

I used this trick to create an avatar for my old site that displayed the ip, location and other stuff to the person looking at my avatar.. Kind'a cool actually

[AbydosGater]

No thats not what i want, I am sending emails and i want to send via in HTML, and i want to attach a small .gif image to the end of the email that hopefully will run the mail() or mysql_query() function to cause some method of me knowing when they read the email...

 

Andy

 

EDIT: Salis: Hmm thanks that sounds like a good idea.. what header did you put at the top of the php file?

[Salis]

I'd use

<?php
header("Content-type: image/gif");
?>