Question

I need some help with some advanced file include code.. I googled around, but I’m not sure how to describe it in a short way for searching.

Basically here is the file structure:

/public_html/include_handle.php  

/protected_site/index.html
               /images/image.jpg  

If I include index.html using a regular include statement, image.jpg obviously won’t show in the browser because it’s not in a public/relative directory. Short of some heavy preg_match/replace parsing, how can I get the image to show on the include_handle.php page when including index.html? I would also like to be able to follow links to other pages from the index.html page. I know I can use iframes and put the static pages in a public directory, but I don’t want that for various reasons. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the base HTML tag for your page to work as if it was in a different directory (or host). Relative links will be resolved using this value as the current document.

I guess protected_site is not accessible from the web. You will need a PHP script to read the files from the protected directory and send them to the user. It will look something like:

getimage.php?image=image.jpg

If you don’t want to change the content of index.html and still link to images as something.jpg instead of the above, you can use mod_rewrite on the server side:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*?\.(jpg|gif|png))$ getimage.php?image=$1 [L]

This way apache will call your PHP for any image files which do not exist in the public directory.