Set the header( content-type: image/<ANY IMG FORMAT>)

Question

The php file that handles the images I display only allows one image format, either .jpg, .png, .bmp, etc but not all. The imageName stores the file name of the image stored in the database including its format. this is my code, so far it doesn't work yet and I'm not sure if that's allowed. Can you help me fix it please?

$con = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","tickets");
$ticket = 109;
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT image, imageName FROM tix WHERE tktNum=$ticket");


while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
    $image = $row['image'];
    $imageName = $row['imageName'];
    $format = substr( $imageName, -3 ); //gets the last 3 chars of the file name, ex: "photo1.png" gets the ".png" part
    header('content-type: image/' . $format);
}

Answer 1

I just used this, just indicating it's an image but without specifying image type.

header("Content-type: image");

It seems to be working just fine regardless of file type. I tested with IE, Firefox, Safari and the Android browser.

Answer 2

The solution is to read in the file and decide which kind of image it is and basednd on it send out the appropriate header.

$filename = basename($file);
$file_extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($filename,"."),1));

switch( $file_extension ) {
    case "gif": $ctype="image/gif"; break;
    case "png": $ctype="image/png"; break;
    case "jpeg":
    case "jpg": $ctype="image/jpeg"; break;
    case "svg": $ctype="image/svg+xml"; break;
    default:
}

header('Content-type: ' . $ctype);