Inserting images using PHP

Question

The code below is a part of my PHP script, which is supposed to display the product image in front of the product info.

Each image is identified by its product_id. Those IDs which are auto-incremented and received from the MySQL database.

PHP code:

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
          $ProductName = $row['product_name'];
          $ProductCat = $row['product_cat'];
          $Email = $row['email'];
          $ID = $row['product_id'];
  //-display the result of the array
          echo '<div ><img align="right" src="/project_images/$ID.JPG" width="280" height="125" /></div>';

The images appear corrupted on the browser.

Is it because the images are of the wrong size (possibly too big) or is the code wrong?

What happens when you open the image url directly from the address bar? — John Conde, Mar 28 '14 at 18:12

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

Consider replacing the single quotes with doubles and escaping double quotes inside the line, like the following:

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $ProductName = $row['product_name'];
    $ProductCat = $row['product_cat'];
    $Email = $row['email'];
    $ID = $row['product_id'];
    // - display the result of the array
    echo "<div ><img align=\"right\" src=\"/project_images/$ID.JPG\" width=\"280\" height=\"125\" /></div>";

PHP only inserts variables' content into string if you put them to the double-quoted string.

More information on difference between single- and double- quoted strings in PHP could be found here: What is the difference between single-quoted and double-quoted strings in PHP?

@CashVai, please consider also choosing answer, if it helps :) — dnl-blkv, Mar 28 '14 at 18:22

Inserting images using PHP

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