creating images from stream without header?

Question

let's say I have the following:

$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($filePath);
echo imagejpeg($image);

is it possible to display this as image without the need to display the headers (which will block other html rendering? or must I split it to several files?

Answer 1

The only way to just stick an image in a page is to encode it as base64, like this:

echo "<img src=\"data:image/jpeg;base64," . base64_encode(imagejpeg($image, true)) . "\" />";

There are serious limitations in doing it like this. Instead, you should be referring to a separate script for your image:

<img src="yourimagescript.php" />