public function image()
{
$url = JRequest::getVar('url', false);
preg_match('/.*\\.([a-zA-Z]+)/', $url, $extension);
if ($url) {
/* use the existing path */
$imagePath = $url;
if (false === file_get_contents($url, 0, null, 0, 1)) {
/* default image is supplied the image path point to broken link */
$imagePath = JXConfig::getMissingImage();
}
/* output the image but its possible to store this for caching purpose */
if (!empty($extension[1])) {
switch ($extension[1]) {
case 'jpg':
$ext = 'jpeg';
break;
default:
$ext = $extension[1];
}
header('Content-Type: image/' . $ext);
header('Content-transfer-encoding: binary');
echo file_get_contents($imagePath);
}
}
exit;
}
