[HELP - PHP] Grab image code

[Liam]

Hello there, I'm making a little script where it'll grab an image, IE:

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Now, I started on a little script;

<?php
$url = "http://website.com";$png = $_GET['png'];if(is_numeric($png)){?><img src=<?php echo $url, $png; ?>.gif'><?php  print("<br /><br /> Text will go under the image");}else{  print("The image you were looking for wasn't found!");}?>

Now, that's just a small base script I started, but I was wondering if someone could possibly make the script more clean, and/or help me with making it so people can't just right click on the image and open it in a new tab.

 

[Macbeth]

Is the script supposed to look for a image on the server it's hosted on or is it supposed to work global?

If it's for the local domain it's hosted on, I'd suggest you to just check if the file (image) exists.

if(file_exists($image_path.$image_filename))
{
      // found the image, lets display it
      echo '<img src="my_url_or_the_direct_path/'  . $image_filename . '">';
}
else
{
     // the image does not exist
}

 

[academic]

Can you even hide it? From my knowledge, you wouldn't be able to hide it without HTML not being able to parse it. Basically HTML needs it. If you echo a variable it is still read by HTML.

Are you sure this works?

 

[TimeBomb]

Instead of using PHP, try using javascript to disable right click, using flash to hold the image (can't save an image if it's flash), and clearing the user's clipboard if the print screen button is pressed. Also make sure to require them to sign a legal document and fax it to you(because the government is in our emailz) before viewing images on your site.

Or you can watermark the image. And/or license it.

Or, you know, just don't worry about it.

 

[Liam]

It's not that, I'm making a nifty PHP image hosting script, and I don't want un-registered users to just be able to copy and paste the image, you know.

 

[Hilroy]

It's not that, I'm making a nifty PHP image hosting script, and I don't want un-registered users to just be able to copy and paste the image, you know.

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[Caustik]

It's not that, I'm making a nifty PHP image hosting script, and I don't want un-registered users to just be able to copy and paste the image, you know.

So you want only registered users to be able to use your service?
That's not a smart idea.

 

[Liam]

So you want only registered users to be able to use your service?
That's not a smart idea.

No, I don't think you understand the concept of what I ment.

Un-registered user:
View images in a webpage where it'll receive the image and they'll be able to get the image in a txtbox after 5 seconds of waiting (advertisements, etc)

Registered users:
They'll get a direct link to there image with no advertisements.

This is to generate some sort of income in a smart manner.

 

[Caustik]

No, I don't think you understand the concept of what I ment.

Un-registered user:
View images in a webpage where it'll receive the image and they'll be able to get the image in a txtbox after 5 seconds of waiting (advertisements, etc)

Registered users:
They'll get a direct link to there image with no advertisements.

This is to generate some sort of income in a smart manner.

I see.
You'd need to check for the user's session (if they're logged in) and then output content based on that.

//some generic code
if($session)
{
//output specific stuff here
}