Displaying image with php

Question

I have a script which displays images like this:

header("Content-Type: image/{$ext}"); readfile($image->path);

This has worked fine for weeks and now suddenly it has stopped working. The response header looks fine (Content-Type: image/jpg), I have no ending php-tag and I have made no changes to my code, server- or php-setup which could have caused this to malfunction. Does anyone have a clue as to what may be going wrong?

Thanks!

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UPDATE

The image doesn't display although you can download it (file->save as) and save it to computer. Openeing it locally though won't work either which leads me to think that the image has been corrupted somehow. Anyone experienced something similar? I'm thinking maybe som php errors/warnings get injected into the stream and corrupts the image.

Answer 1

The right content-type for JPG images is "Content-type: image/jpeg".

Note that the T of type is lower case.

UPDATE

I don't know if it will be useful but try something like this:

$info=pathinfo($image->path);
$ext=strtolower($info["extension"]);
if($ext=="jpg") $ext="jpeg";
header("Content-type: image/$ext");
imagejpeg(imagecreatefromjpeg($image->path));

Answer 2

One source of possible issues is that the MIME type for JPEG images is image/jpeg, not image/jpg. This is a case where the type doesn't agree with the fairly-common, 3-character version of the file extension.

Answer 3

Some thoughts:

• File is to big
• File path causing problems