Pulling IMG Into PHP File

I have a PHP file and an image in the same directory. How could I get the PHP file to set it's headers as jpeg and "pull" the image into it. So if I went to file.php it would show the image. If I rewrite file.php to file_created.jpg and it needs to work.

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• Should be easy as:

  <?php
      $filepath= '/home/foobar/bar.jpg';
      header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
      echo file_get_contents($filepath);
  ?>
  

  You will just have to figure out how to determine the correct mime type, which should be pretty trivial.

  Crescent Fresh : "readfile($filepath);" is even shorter

• Rather than use file_get_contents as suggested by another answer, use readfile and output out some more HTTP headers to play nicely:

     <?php
      $filepath= '/home/foobar/bar.gif'
      header('Content-Type: image/gif');
      header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($filepath));
      readfile($file);
     ?>
  

  readfile reads the data from the file and writes direct to the output buffer, whereas file_get_contents would first pull the entire file into memory and then output it. Using readfile makes a big difference if the file is very large.

  If you wanted to get cuter, you could output the last modified time, and check the incoming http headers for the If-Modified-Since header, and return an empty 304 response to tell the browser they already have the current version....here's a fuller example showing how you might do that:

  $filepath= '/home/foobar/bar.gif'
  
  $mtime=filemtime($filepath);
  
  $headers = apache_request_headers(); 
  if (isset($headers['If-Modified-Since']) && 
      (strtotime($headers['If-Modified-Since']) >= $mtime)) 
  {
      // Client's cache IS current, so we just respond '304 Not Modified'.
      header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', $mtime).' GMT', true, 304);
      exit;
  }
  
  
  header('Content-Type:image/gif');
  header('Content-Length: '.filesize($filepath));
  header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', $mtime).' GMT');
  readfile($filepath);