how to send png image from server to display in browser via ajax

Question

I have been having a hard time with what must be an incredibly normal task. I upload and save images to my web server and save the path to the file in MySQL data base (this

Answer 1

You can actually embed image data inside the img tag in the browser, therefore ajax code could look like this:

$.ajax({
    url: get_image.php,
    success: function(image_string){
        $(document.body).append(");
    }
});

Note that you will need to write this base64_encode function. Have a look at this question - the function is given there.