GD question

[Aurora078]

I'm using GD to re-create an image from a url. The only problem is instead of serving the image from blah.php?id=imgid, i want to serve it from md5'd id-picname.png .

How can this be accomplished?

[Zeggy]

Mod rewrite?

[a_bertrand]

So you don't want the filename in the argument but some... hash? well you can't directly

you must store the full path in a db with as key an hash (md5 or whatever) and then you can use that to find the true path.

[Aurora078]

THe hash isnt really what im trying to say. Im just saying how would i get the image to come out at .png instead of .php ? so i could access it like image.png instead of images.php?image=theimage

[a_bertrand]

so either you use a mod rewrite for something like

/myimg/img.png which would be then pointing at myphp.php?image=img.png

or you could use a the PATH_INFO to have an url like

myphp.php/img.png

Is it what you are looking for?

[Aurora078]

this is mainly what i used..

 

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ([0-9a-zA-Z])\.png$ /images/?id=$1

 

and of course the image is fetched by the id of user, and some other variables all mixed up for reasons.

[a_bertrand]

RewriteRule ([0-9a-zA-Z])\.png$ /images/?id=$1

Will rewrite ALL the .png files to that... are you sure that's what you want?

[Aurora078]

No, just specifics, but i'm fairly new to mod_rewrite so i dont know any other way.

[a_bertrand]

By doing so:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/users/([0-9a-zA-Z])\.png$ /images/?id=$1

 

You say that only the urls with /users/XYZ.png will be converted what doesn't start with /users/ will not (it is just an example). I you just say whatever ends by .png will have way too many matches and could be counter productive.