Fetch images from a network drive in php

Question

I have a network drive in my intranet with say IP: 128.233.1.15, which has a shared folder images containing profile images of all the users. Now in my PHP code, I try to fetch individual images of the users dynamically on their successful login from the network drive by making the image path as

$imgdir="file:\\\\128.233.1.15\\images\\".$userid.".jpg";

And then I use this $imgdir in <img src>, but the required image is not fetched on the PHP page when a user logs in. But when I directly open the link file:\\\\128.233.1.15\\images\\".$userid.".jpg in the web browser, the required image is fetched, but it's not getting fetched by the PHP code.

I have also tried mapping of the network drive and other combinations of the filepath, but it still isn't working.

Answer 1

I think Map your folder as drive if you are on windows. Provide them proper permissions and try again with the drive path.