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Packing up resources can sometimes be a challenge. What if you have a plugin that you want someone to be able to install. Do you make them unpack a set of images/css/... to a certain place?

I recently say a PHP plugin that encapsulated everything it did in the one PHP script. I was wondering where the images were, and then I saw them inline in the PHP code itself!

/**
 * Images
 */
$images = array();
$images['subscribed.png'] = "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABUAAAAICAMAAAAhgUThAAAABGdBTUEAAK/INwWK6QAAABl0RVh0U29mdHdhcmUAQWRvYmUgSW1hZ2VSZWFkeXHJZTwAAAAGUExURai0vvP8+20m9Z0AAAACdFJOU/8A5bcwSgAAAE5JREFUeNpiYAQBBhBGAgABxAARZYBgRigPIIBgchAI1cgAEEBwFWDlUNMYAAIIWS3cIAaAAEIyFy7OyAAQQAxIbkDYBhBAcCaKywACDAAgyABfpZamZwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==";
$images['subthread.png'] = "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA0AAAANCAYAAAEF7NTqAAAABGdBTUEAAK/INwWK6QAAABl0RVh0U29mdHdhcmUAQWRvYmUgSW1hZ2VSZWFkeXHJZTwAAACmSURBVHjaYvz//z8DCAAEEBMDFAAEECNMBCCA4CIAAQQXgQGAAGJiQAMAAYSiAiCAGIEYzgMIIBSlAAGEogwggBignP/oGCQOEEAYNiADgADCKwkQQBiOhQGAAGIByzIyosgCFTMCBBBOHQABhFMHQADh1AEQQDh1AAQQTh0AAYRTAh8ACCBEzKBZhY8PEEBMDGQAgAAiSxNAAJGlCSCAyAoIgAADAEniPAbcSIg9AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC";
$images['subthread-open.png'] = "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA0AAAANCAYAAAEF7NTqAAAABGdBTUEAAK/INwWK6QAAABl0RVh0U29mdHdhcmUAQWRvYmUgSW1hZ2VSZWFkeXHJZTwAAACoSURBVHjaYvz//z8DCAAEEBMDFAAEECNMBCCA4CIAAQQXgQGAAGJiQAMAAYSiAiCAQOg/VOA/QAChKAUIIBRlAAHEAFOCjkHiAAGEYQMyAAggvJIAAYThFBgACCAWsCwj4380dzICBBBOHQABhFMHQADh1AEQQDh1AAQQTh0AAYRTAh8ACCBEzKBZhWE6kjxAADExkAEAAogsTQABRJYmgAAiKyAAAgwA3YE+/1F5tWAAAAAASUVORK5CYII=";
$images['spacer.png'] = "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAADUlEQVQI12NgYGBgAAAABQABXvMqOgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==";

if(isset($_GET['image']))
{
        header("content-type: image/png");
        print base64_decode($images[$_GET['image']]);
        exit;
}

I never would have thought to encode my images and output them from my script itself. Oh those crazy PHP guys :)