Displaying images using PHP not working

Question

I'm trying to display an image using a PHP script. Basically so the php script is passed on the full path to the image, and it then displays that image in the browser. I've checked to make sure the image exists, it is being read correctly, etc, however in the browser i just see the broken image box (e.g the small red cross in IE) if I go there.

My script sends out these headers:

<?php
header('Last-Modified: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s T', filemtime($file)));
header('Content-Type: '.$mime);
header('Content-Length: '.filesize($file)."\n\n");
header('Etag: '.md5($file));
echo $file;
die;

$file contains something like '/var/www/htdocs/images/file.jpg' which works. the $mime is 'image/jpeg'.

I have also tried echoing file_get_contents($file) but it didn't work either.

What is the problem, any thoughts?

Answer 1

Striving for simplicity...

<?php
header('Content-type:' . mime_content_type($file));
readfile($file);

should function as expected.

Answer 2

I think using imagejpeg and imagecreatefromjpeg will work. Go for something like

$im = imagecreatefromjpeg($file);
imagejpeg($im);

PHP Manual on imagejpeg and imagecreatefromjpeg

Answer 3

I found the answer, i had some extra whitespace after the ?> tag which was causing the header to not work. grrrrrrr