11-08-2013, 01:15 PM
If I'm understanding you right, and this is more for my own personal reference here (haven't used php in a few years now), are you saying that by setting the header to treat the file like an image and just "repeating" the data from the image via PHP you can then reference that directly wherever you'd reference the original image?
That's roughly what I was considering with this problem but I wasn't sure about the process or specific syntax for "pretend to be this picture".
Just to get some layman's terms here with the concept of the whole "compiling" and "server-side/client-side" business covered on the off-chance that the technical terms are getting a bit confusing for people who don't know them, PHP is just a server-side scripting language, all that means is you don't have to compile it in any way, but when you access it the code is run on the server before giving you whatever the output (if any) is.
(This is an important distinction because, for example, php accessing a database is likely to include the location and login details for it, but because that's all on the server-side the user can't see it in the page source.)
Also I'm a big dummy and hadn't even considered the security issue of allowing arbitrary code to be run that way, which is stupid because I know I've actually exploited that loophole myself more than a few times.
I'd be interested in seeing the code for it myself if/when you can put something together, it's an interestingly convoluted problem from my perspective and I'm always down with learning how magic tricks are done.
That's roughly what I was considering with this problem but I wasn't sure about the process or specific syntax for "pretend to be this picture".
Just to get some layman's terms here with the concept of the whole "compiling" and "server-side/client-side" business covered on the off-chance that the technical terms are getting a bit confusing for people who don't know them, PHP is just a server-side scripting language, all that means is you don't have to compile it in any way, but when you access it the code is run on the server before giving you whatever the output (if any) is.
(This is an important distinction because, for example, php accessing a database is likely to include the location and login details for it, but because that's all on the server-side the user can't see it in the page source.)
Also I'm a big dummy and hadn't even considered the security issue of allowing arbitrary code to be run that way, which is stupid because I know I've actually exploited that loophole myself more than a few times.
I'd be interested in seeing the code for it myself if/when you can put something together, it's an interestingly convoluted problem from my perspective and I'm always down with learning how magic tricks are done.