Comments on: gifs that execute a php script

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 03:34:23 +0000

Instead of AddType I often use ForceType wrapped inside a Files block in my .htaccess. This way I can restrict it to a particular file or set of files. I've done this for both images and CSS files.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:17:42 +0000

My problem was that any filename with an extension other .gif or .jpg was getting stripped out. AS WELL, I needed to be able to pass the script some variables.

So, I was fine with the first solution. But the minute I started pulling the something.gif?var=value etc. etc. .. it got yanked. So I had to find another (albeit) sneaky way to pass variables into the url.

Not sure about the script.php/spacer.gif thing. I suspect the .php would have tipped it off. As well - not sure how I would pass variables using that method without being obvious. (ie. without doing file.ext?var=value)

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:35:35 +0000

if you do need a .gif extension for some purpose, like an avatar for a bbs that checks filenames, it is possible to add /image.gif to the end of the script.

script.php/image.gif

no rewrites needed then.

By: Mark J

Mark J — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:06:34 +0000

If you do not need the gif to have a ".gif" extension, you can skip the mod-rewrite stuff and just point to the php script, which will behave like a gif to anyone who views it.

You can do this with all types of files. Try giving your CSS files a ".php" extension and

header('Content-Type: text/css');

at the top and get creative.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:30:39 +0000

ooooh! great tip!