[Solved] how to hide a part of url?

[eluser]Mr-H[/eluser]
hi every body
i have a script that allow people to upload their pictures to the server and desplay the url like this : http//localhost/ci/uploads/my_pic.jpg
(the data of the image is stored in the db )
what i want to do is hide the uploads folder from the url so the script can be much more secure.
how can i do this whith out using htaccess file but the database.