Image Wrapper (PHP)

So here are two examples, they are in my web tree, but you can see the process.

Real locations are:
/i/12t.jpg
/images/10t.jpg

Fake locations are:
/external/image-wrapper/image/12t.jpg
/external/image-wrapper/i/10t.jpg

Please note I am explaining little bits. You will have to download entire code to get this working. It’s well commented.

Step 1: Routing

Route all files through your image wrapper script. This is done with the magic of .htaccess . I am not going to explain it, as many people have done it better, but basically it just takes a request and sends it to my index.php file

grab source: htaccess.txt

Step 2: Parse URL

Basically we grab the requested URL

//parse url into parts
$parts = @parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

Next we grab the image path

## GRAB IMAGE PATH
$web_path = '/external/image-wrapper/';
// drop multiple slashes
$uri_path = preg_replace('#/+#', '/', $parts['path']);
// drop trailing slashes
$uri_path = preg_replace('#/$#', '', $uri_path);
// drop site path
$path = trim(preg_replace('#^'.$web_path.'#', '', $uri_path)); 	

This takes this “/external/image-wrapper/i/10t.jpg” and just makes is “i/10t.jpg”;

Step 3: Send correct place

There are probably many ways to this, but basically i set up an array of regular expressions and see what it matches and send correct place.

//image handlers
$pages = Array(
	//( /i/image_name)
	'#^i/([^/]+)$#' => 'do_image',
	//-------------
	//( /image/image_name)
	'#^image/([^/]+)$#' => 'do_image_other'
);
foreach ($pages as $page_pattern => $the_func)
{
	if (preg_match($page_pattern, $path, $matches))
	{
		//call function
 		$the_func();
		break;
	}
}

Step 4: Check image

//get info about image
$image_info = pathinfo($img_dir.$img_name);
//has name
!empty($img_name)
//has extension
@isset($image_info['extension']) &&
//has basename
@isset($image_info['basename']) &&
//valid extension
isset( $ext_list[ strtolower( $image_info['extension'] ) ] ) &&
//real file
file_exists($img_dir.$image_info['basename'] )

Step 5: Send image

//set correct header
$contentType = 'Content-type: '.$ext_list[ $image_info['extension'] ];
header ($contentType);
//send file to browser
readfile($img_dir.$image_info['basename']);
exit(0);

Usage

As mentioned i used this to get around images not being in the web tree, but there are other things you could do

• Get around image not being in web tree
• Increment counter to see how many times images is requested
• Add identifying information with GD
• more?

Source

image-wrapper.zip