# Loading image into flash through php

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [June 13, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-image-into-flash-through-php/54344 "2004-06-13T20:54:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![sequence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@sequence](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sequence)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-image-into-flash-through-php/54344/1 "2004-06-13T20:54:30Z")

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Hello, I have a question (surprise :-)). My goal is to load images from a directory on my webserver into flash. The problem is that I want the images folder to be protected by .htaccess that prevents direct access to that folder, and therefore I cannot directly load the image into flash by URL. My thought is that I need to use an intermediary, php, to direct the image request to the server-side script so that it will return an image to me; the php would be able to access the images because it is going to be an internal operation rather than cross domain direct request. The question is how do I request an image from php and load it into flash; the name of the desired picture is, of course, known from a database.

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