Displaying images from outside the site root

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Serving images from outside of document root

The solution given and accepted was using Apache Aliases.

However, doe

Answer 1

You could do something like this...

<?php

// somehow assign $file from a query string or database or whatever
header("Content-length: ". filesize($file));
header("Content-type: ". mime_content_type($file));
readfile($file);