It’s possible to embed images into your web-page using php, such that you have just one single file as your webpage. There are no links to other images, just one single file will contain the whole web-page including all the images in it.
To do this::
1. You need to encode your images using base64_encode() function in php.
You can write an elaborate code for it .. but you can use this simple script called base64img
Download the Script | See a Demo of the Script
2. As a result you will get a code looking something like this ::
function img()
{
header("Content-type: image/gif");
header("Content-length: 102");
echo base64_decode(
'AAABAAEAGRcAAAEAGABYBwAAFgAAACgAAAAZAAAALgAAAAEAGA'.
'AAAAAAAAAAAGAAAABgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMz'.
'MzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMvLzszMzMdHWYzMzMvLzozMzMzMz'.
'MzMzMzMzMzKipGMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMzMz'.
'MzMzMzMzMzMzTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'.
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'.
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'.
'');
}
much longer than this .. of course)
Create such functions for all the images you need to put up. Say you need to put 3 images, then rename the function to img_1(), img_2() and img_3() repectively and copy-paste it anywhere in your php file.
(as the encoded data is really long so better put at the end )
3. Now write the following code at the top of your php file
if (isset($_GET['img']))
{
switch ( $_GET['img'] )
{
case '1': img_1(); break;
case '2': img_2(); break;
case '3': img_3(); break;
default: break;
}
die();
}
Remember to put this code at the TOP of the php file. You should put it before you ‘echo’ anything else or write anything in html ( i.e. before ,etc tags ).
This is necessary as you may get “Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent” error otherwise and it wont work.
4. Now you can embed image in that page or any other page using the image adress as.
http://www.yourwebsitename.com/yourpage.php?img=1
What we are doing here is that whenever we need an image, we call the php page with a query string of ‘?img=1′ attached. The page is executed and sends image data.
This method seems a bit complicated at first sight but it works well.
Uses:
1. We know that we can always link images to outside source, this method is not some hot-shot popular method. But its a possible workaround when you cannot upload images.
2. Very useful while creating your own php scripts and putting it for download over the web. You have just one file, not a folder.
3. Its possible to keep other data, like zip files, anything you want to put up, not just images, for download.
You can store the encoded data ( and the content-length ) in a mysql table too. This is sometimes used for large collection of images
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