Display image on image request

[dovieda]

Hey guys,

I actually have two questions. For me, if I typed in http://i.imgrev.com/6f7265e2f0167261.jpg -- the picture is displayed just fine. But if I try http://i.imgrev.com/5c (the link to this images page) I get a 500 error... How do I fix this? Obviously the goal here is to have a short link.

Also, how can I make it so requests via the <img> tag display the image? For example:

<img src="http://imgrev.com/image/5c" />

or hopefully

<img src="http://i.imgrev.com/5c" />

As of now, it just displays a broken image. How could I make it return the actual image (which would be: http://imgrev.com/i/6f7265e2f0167261.jpg )? I'd like to do this because reddit users can then link to /image/5c -- which would display the picture for reddit enhancement suite users, display for mobile reddit users (hopefully), and for others if they clicked the link -- they would be directed to the page.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Rodolfo]

For question 1, that is most likely an issue in the server side rewriting. 500 errors are rarely triggered at script layer. I don't know how did you make the rewrite or how you are handling the requests in that sub-domain.

For question 2, I won't recommend it because it needs that to server the /5c URL either the server of PHP do a map and server the file in that way which can easily blow out your machine.

 

[dovieda]

I didn't actually do any rewrites, at least not manually -- I just added the "i" subdomain in cpanel to direct to my images folder and it worked.

Is there any add-on script, or direction as to where to find out how to do the second part? I'm comfortable with coding something myself but after looking at the mysql database, how does Chevereto know that 5c correlates to 6f7265e2f0167261.jpg or the image_id ?

 

[Rodolfo]

Chevereto uses public ids which are an alphanumeric representation of an integer id. It uses the functions CHV\decodeID($public_id); and CHV\encodeID($id);

 

[dovieda]

Thank you! I'll post a follow up later on for people wanting the same thing.