Opening an image and printing to the web page

[Techguy1]

The idea here is this.
print out $image.gif to the web page without releasing the actual image location.
How would I go about that? fopen and then print?

Thanks for any help

[Chen]

fpassthru():
http://php.fastmirror.com/manual/en/function.fpassthru.php

readfile():
http://php.fastmirror.com/manual/en/function.readfile.php

[Techguy1]

Thanks Chen, will look at it later today, looks like just what i need :)