Non-PHP Files

[Onetoomanysodas]

How could I allow Apache to accept a request for an image file (png) but have php analyze a script by that name in a certain directory?

 

Client request => xx.com/test.png

PHP Script name: test.png

Apache executes php.exe on test.png

test.png => Returns image headers and outputs png data

 

Thanks!

[trq]

Firstly, I wouldn't really recommend doing it the way your thinking as in doing so all .png files will be processed as php.

 

Having said that, all you need do is add...

 

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .png

 

to your .htaccess file. This forces all .png files to be processed as php. Then your image script....

 

<?php

  header("content-type: image/png");
  imagecreatefrompng('image.png');
  imagepng($image);
  imagedestroy($image);

?>

 

A better method may be to have a simple image.php file which is passed a filename via the url....

 

<?php

  if (isset($_GET['img'])) {
    header("content-type: image/png");
    imagecreatefrompng($_GET['img']);
    imagepng($image, '', 75);
    imagedestroy($image);
  }

?>

 

You can then have a mod_rewrite rule which will allow urls like /images/foo.png to display foo.png as processed via php. Something like....

 

RewriteRule ^/images/(.*)$ image.php?img=$1 [L]