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Secure display image outside root - Marcel - 08-12-2016
Hi all
i have my whole codeigniter placed outside my root except for the assets (css,js)
i use a php script to display my images in the view like so
Code:
<img class="img-circle" src="../image.php?img=me.jpg" alt="">the image.php contents look like this
PHP Code:
<?php
header('Content-Type: image/jpg');
readfile("../images/" . $_GET['img']);
?>https://mydomaine.be/image.php?img=avatar.png
is there a way to do this.
i have tried placing code inside the image.php (if ci loggedinuser bla bla) but i dont have access to the CI core inside my image.php so dont work.
by the way the image.php is in the root. (http://www.mydomain.be/image.php)
what would be the best way to achieve this
thanks to all
RE: Secure display image outside root - PaulD - 08-12-2016
It depends how you are logging your users (or at least recognizing they are logged in). If it is in a cookie, you know the cookie name, just interrogate the cookie using standard php. If you are using a flag in a database table, again just connect to and interrogate the database using standard php. Would that not do what you are looking for?
RE: Secure display image outside root - Ivo Miranda - 08-12-2016
If your prob is not having CI why not just define absolute paths for:
$system_path and $application_folder
and then require the index.php in your php file also as absolute path
RE: Secure display image outside root - Diederik - 08-12-2016
To do what you want you should create a 'image' controller and let CI spit out the correct image.
But if you want to prevent hotlinking, perhaps its easier to disable that through .htaccess.