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hello,

I'm trying to display images that are stored outside the root dir.
Currently I am doing this by calling a script that gets the image details and sends back the header of a jpeg and then using that output in an img src tag.

image_getter.php
    $contents = file_get_contents('../images_thumbs/thumb-'.htmlentities($_GET['i'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8').'.jpg');
    header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
    echo $contents;

page_to_show_image_on.php
<img src="./image_getter.php?i=<?php echo strtr($filename['encoded_file_name']); ?>"  width="280" height="280" border="0" />

Do I need to continue to use this or can I skip the image_getter.php and use:
<img src="<?php Image::load('path/to/image/file.jpg')->output('jpeg');?>" width="280" height="280">

When I try this, the entire screen grays out and it seems as if only the image is trying to be sent back and not in the img tag.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks.

(on a side note, is there a way to be notified by email when someone replies to a post? I only get an email when I'm mentioned in  a post)