Posted by Brendan Gillatt on 10/26/07 14:51

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Kevin Blount wrote:
> I'm trying to create the forum favorite dynamic sig image, that's
> realy PHP script. I've had moderate success with .php files but when I
> change the extension to .png I'm prompted to download the file, rather
> than it rendering.
>
> My understanding is that this is not supposed to happen, and that by
> adding an.htaccess file I can force .png files to be compiled/parsed/
> whatevered by PHP. In my .htaccess file I have:
>
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .png
>
> Any advice?
>
> I'm using heliohost.org as my host, and they basically pointed me to
> create the above file (as the first reply to my recent support query).
> Googling this I'm not seeing that I'm doing anything wrong.. so what
> gives?
>

I agree with the second poster - I don't think you can change the types
with .htaccess. You could try using mod_rewrite to direct everything from
, say, "/image-12345.png" to "image.php?id=12345". I'm not great with
regular expressions but I'm sure someone else can help you out with that.

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Brendan Gillatt
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