HTML tag question

voodoozoe

I am trying to display an image who's file name is taken from a database...the problem I have is every time the page loads a different image is displayed. Can I use the "img" tag but without the width and height attributes without any problems?

I have been trying to use the PHP $getimagesize function, this works if I use either the filename or the height and width attributes but not a combination of the two together.

<?PHP
list($width, $height, $type) = getimagesize($filename);
?>

<img src="<?PHP echo $filename ?>">

<img src="picture.gif", width="$width", height="$height">

either of these work but what I want to use is something like this

<img src="<?PHP echo $filename ?>" width="$width" height="$height">

Can this be done?

krysus

Try this...

<?php
list($width, $height, $type) = getimagesize($filename);
echo "<img src='{$filename}' width='{$width}' height='{$height}'>";
?>

If you look at this line you wrote:

<img src="picture.gif", width="$width", height="$height">


You have separated your parameters with commas - HTML tag parameters don't need to be separated by commas - not sure that was anything to do with the problem.

Surely though by simply doing an IMG SRC= without any other parameters, it loads to the actual size anyway.

krysus

Also, for future reference, and a more appropriate audience, i'd suggest the PHP newsgroup... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/topics

voodoozoe

I have tried other forums (not that one though) and either get no response at all or a scathing response. My OH suggested I try on here as i was getting desperate.:o

Thanks very much for replying...and nicely too!!!