Question

When including an image file in a php page using

include "images/filename.jpg";

I get the following error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in path_to_folder/images/filename.jpg on line 1

whereas this is working locally on my local wamp server. My site is hosted on hostmonster — which I guess provides php5. Could the problem be with the host ?

Answer 1

As the other answers say, you are trying to execute the image (binary data) as php code. This is probably what you want:

header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
readfile('image.jpeg');