Re: [PHP] Serving an image

[viper]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Rick Dwyer <rpdw...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I am sending an email with a logo at the top of the email.  The source of the 
> image for the logo is:
>
> http://myurl.com/image.php?id=5
>
> Image.php then calls a function that simply returns the following:
>
>
>
> $image='<img src="http://myurl.com/images/logo.jpg"; />';
> return $image;
>
>
>
> Calling the page directly via the URL http://myurl.com/image.php?id=5 works 
> fine.
> But when the email is opened, I get the broken link/image icon even though I 
> can see in my source that the URL which works when loaded into a browser.
>
> What needs to be done to serve that image to a email client when it is opened?

in image.php you should return an image/xxx file and not an HTML tag.
try something like this:

image.php:

$im = imagecreatefrompng("test.png");
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

then in your email you can put:
<img src="http://myurl.com/image.php?id=5"; />



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