Restrict direct image viewing

[eluser]Chris Williams[/eluser]
Hey Lone!

Thanks for the input.

I didn't see any get_mimetype function in the user guide, but I don't think it makes a difference either way. If I hard code the actual address instead of looking it up in the db, I'm not getting it to display anything.

Code:

$path = '/secret_directory/this_image.png';
        
$mimetype = get_mime_by_extension($path); // will need file_helper loaded
ob_get_clean();
header('Content-Type: '.$mimetype);
ob_flush();

So when I call it from /index.php/index/view by itself, Firefox tells me it contains errors. I'm a little too novice to tell what's not working.