This was my first approach to protect some media files for a project, it worked well, but resource consumption was extremely high, and i ended up with a different solution that works 10 times faster using far less resources, it's based on the secure download module available in lighttpd.
http://dtemes.blogspot.com/2011/05/secure-downloads-with-apache-and.html On 22 sep, 17:18, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 22, 2011, at 05:18, heohni wrote: > > > if(is_file('../CMS_images/'..... > > this way I can check if a file is "there". > > > But how can I display this image in a view? > > Write a controller method that reads and outputs the image using readfile. > > http://php.net/readfile > > Then, wherever you want to include the image in your view, write an image tag > whose src attribute is the URL of that controller method. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
