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[Jonathan]

Depending on speed requirements you can insert the binary data of an 
image in a database or restricted area of the filesystem and have a php 
script retrieve the image.
Your html would look like this
<img src="getimage.php?image_number=1324">
This is often used for tracking.

If you just want directory listing prevented use .htaccess of apache to 
shut off the option for indexes.

Mark Withington wrote:

>Perhaps a dumb question, can anyone recommend an effective way to restrict
>direct access to an images subdirectory?  Specifically, I would like to
>serve up images _only_ through .php scripts on the server, not directly via
>a URL....
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