Image protecting in a web site is the major security issue. But we cannot make it 100% secure, atleast we can make it difficult. In PHP we can make the image path hidden, customer/web user cannot access the image folder or image path.
Here are the steps to hide the direct URL/real path of the image.
Copy the bellow code and put it in the new php file image.php.
image.php
<?php
$id = $_GET['id'];
$map1 = {
1=>'c:/picture/jellyfish.jpg',
2=>'c:/picture/cfish.jpg',
3=>'c:/picture/dfish.jpg'
}
$path = $map1[$id];
$str = file_get_contents($path);
echo $str;
?>
and in the html page(suppose test.html), use the code like this bellow
<img src='image.php?id=3'>
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if you are using database, get the path of the image from database and put it in the array.
<?php
$root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$db = new db_mysql();
$id = $_GET['id'];
$sql = "SELECT id, org_id, div_id, file_name FROM photos WHERE id='".$id."'";
$map1 = Array();
$db->query($sql);
while ($db->next_record())
{
$id = $db->f('id');
$map1[$id]['name'] = $root."/photos/".$db->f('org_id')."/".$db->f('div_id')."/".$db->f('div_id')."_".$db->f('file_name');
}
$path = $map1[$id]['name'];
$str = file_get_contents($path);
echo $str;
?>
if you have any query, please feel free to comment.
