[FX.php List] Displaying images

[Kevin Futter]

On 4/11/08 9:17 AM, "Tim 'Webko' Booth" <tim at nicheit.com.au> wrote:

> 
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 1, 2008, at 5:01 AM, Thomas Neumann wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>>  
>>> I'm facing the following problem
>>>  
>>> I try to display images from a database in a webpage using FX.
>>> When I just use img src= \" $data["picture] \" then it works (after a
>>> request for the password) on my development pc, where FMServer and the
>>> webserver run on the same machine. But when I put it on the server
>>> (filemakerserver and webserver on different machines) then it does not work
>>> (it even did not ask for the password).
>>> I tried the image_prox.php from the FX demo, but could not get it working in
>>> any configuration.
>>>  
>>> Any hints or clues?
>> Thomas,
>> 
>> At first glance I'm wondering about the way you've got your URL constructed;
>> when I display images on the web, I prefer to mix my PHP rather than writing
>> all the HTML inside PHP, but that's just me; here's how my code would look:
>> [... snip ..]
>> 
> I suspect that Tom has the pictures in a container field inside the database
> rather than at a known web location.
> 
> The issue here is that the request for the picture in the container field has
> to go to the FileMaker Server, not the webserver - this is not too hard to
> organise where they operate from the same IP address, but is difficult when
> the webserver and FM are different boxes.
> 
> Off the top of my head, I seem to remember reading something about how to deal
> with this issue, but can't find it offhand.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Webko


We have this working, but it is indeed a PITA. For fun, we decided to
complicate it more by passing the image data through some GD functions as
well. For that reason, the code I developed to make all this work isn't at
all typical for the problem, so wouldn't really help here. But it can be
done!

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/


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