If you're going to use a Base64 data URI you'll need to encode the output.
Are you trying to do this because the images are above webroot?
Also, there's a problem with this line:
header('Content-type: $type');
Where does $type come from? Anyway, I think MediaView handles that header.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Blues Clues <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to display image retrieved using MediaView based
> Controller.
>
> My controller looks like this:
>
> CONTROLLER:
>
> function getImg(){
> $this->autoLayout = false;
> if($this->RequestHandler->isAjax()){
> Configure::write('debug', 0);
> }
> $this->view = 'Media';
> header('Content-type: $type');
> $params = array('id' => '175209_20.png',
> 'name' => 'user_img_name',
> 'download' => false,
> 'extension' => 'png', // must
> be lower case
> 'path' => APP.WEBROOT_DIR . DS
> . 'files\upload' . DS
> );
> $this->set($params);
> }
>
> I hardcoded image name here just to see if this works atleast.
>
> VIEW:
>
> <script>
> $.ajax({
> url:
> baseAction+'images/getImg',
> data: 'id='+id,
> success:
> function(msg){
>
> $('#preview-img').html('<img src="data:image/png;base64,' +
> msg + '" ></img>');
> }
> }).error(function(){
> alert('ajax error!');
> });
>
> </script>
>
>
> the image is displayed as:
>
> <img src="�PNG���������������������������������
>
> [COLOR=red][B]Can you tell how to use this MediaView in a controller
> and display images?
> [/B][/COLOR]
>
> I am very close I think but this is killing me.
>
> Thanks
> -BC
>
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