PHP : Unexpected T_String while including jpeg image

When including an image file in a php page using

include "images/filename.jpg";

I get the following error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in path_to_folder/images/filename.jpg on line 1

whereas this is working locally on 开发者_C百科my local wamp server. My site is hosted on hostmonster -- which I guess provides php5. Could the problem be with the host ?

As the other answers say, you are trying to execute the image (binary data) as php code. This is probably what you want:

header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
readfile('image.jpeg');

This code doesn't make sense, and I don't see why it would work locally. You're telling PHP to execute the image as PHP/HTML code, which will not work.

You're missing quotes around the file path, anyway including an image in the code makes no sense. I can't imagine how it could work locally.

you just don't understand what are you doing.

include is used for including another part of PHP code into your script.

To output a file you have to use readfile() instead

Is it possible that your jpeg contains the sequence <?? Include is not meant to be used like this. You should use file_get_contents instead:

echo file_get_contents("images/filename.jpg");