So i want my page to show the image whose path I am getting from the mysql database and displaying on the same screen. This is my code, I have tried everything, please let me know where I'm going wrong.
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($return_data)) {
echo "ID:".$row['demo_id']."<br>";
echo "Name: ".$row['demo_name']."<br>";
echo "Version: ".$row['demo_version']."<br>";
echo "Details: ".$row['demo_details']."<br>";
echo "File Link: ".$row['file']."<br>";
$new = $row['file'];
echo '<img src = \"$new\"/>';
}
mysqli_free_result($return_data);
echo "Data retrieved successfully!"."<br>";
?>
<img src = "<?php echo $new?>">
echo "File Link: " returns me the whole path of the uploaded file.
How do I render the image at that path in the same page?
neither of the image tags are working. Thanks in advance!
edit
File Link: C:/Apache24/htdocs/demo_webpages_project/neweruploads/footer.jpg
this is the path I get as an output.
Basically this is the folder where I have uploaded the image from another php file
<?php
//this module is used to temporarily store the uploaded file to the server
$target_dir = "random/"; //we randomly assign a value to the upload target directory
$target_file = $target_dir . basename($_FILES["image_file"]["name"]); /*here ["name"] is the original name of the file before it was updated
target file is assigned this name by appending it to the $targer_dir
now target_file is the uploaded file name along with the path*/
$imageFileType = pathinfo($target_file,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);/*this returns various kind of info about the path for eg Directory, Basename
in our case it returns extension of the file*/
//this sub module is to check whether the file is really an image file
if(isset($_POST["submit"])) { //isset is used to confirm whether the value has actually being submitted
$check = getimagesize($_FILES["image_file"]["tmp_name"]);/*here ["tmp_name"] is the location of temporary file on server
getimagesize confirms image format by returning dimensions etc*/
if($check !== false) {
echo "A file is of an image format<br>";
}
else {
echo "The file is not an image!<br>";
}
}
//Test module to upload files to a destination directory and check whether they have been uploaded or not
if (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['image_file']['tmp_name']) && $_FILES['image_file']['error']==0) { /*code to check two things: 1. whether the file exists in the temp memory 2. whether the file has any error*/
$path = 'C:\Apache24\htdocs\demo_webpages_project\neweruploads\\' . $_FILES['image_file']['name']; /*this sets the destination directory(along with expected file name)*/
if (!file_exists($path)) { //if the file does not exists at that path
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['image_file']['tmp_name'], $path)) { //use the php file move function to move it
echo "The file was uploaded successfully."; //success
}
else {
echo "The file was not uploaded successfully."; //failure
}
}
else {
echo "File already exists. Please upload another file."; //detects existence of file with exact same name
}
}
else {
echo "The file was not uploaded successfully."; //if any problem with original uploading
echo "(Error Code:" . $_FILES['image_file']['error'] . ")";
}
?>
Does this help?
edit 2
http://localhost:8080/demo_webpages_project/download.php?project_name=footer&version=&submit=Search
this is my local directory path.
the solution you provided is allowing me to read images which are in the demo_webpages_project folder pointing directly there), not to neweruploads folder
