I am trying to get phpMyAdmin to show the image/link for a field that has a local path. For example, the path of my picture is Z:/Koala.jpg.
I've setup MIME type: plain/txt and the Browser Transformation: txt/plain imagelink. It works for online images where the picture has http:// but not for files stored on my local hard drive.
It actually shows the Z:/Koala.jpg as a link and underlined, but it won't open anything when I click. phpMyAdmin appends file:\\ but I've tried both ways and no luck. Multiple browsers too.
PS Z:/ is a mapped network drive of my Network attached storage. But it doesn't work even if I use C:/.....
What you're trying to do isn't possible. Security restrictions in modern web browsers prohibit web sites from loading resources from the local filesystem (e.g, file://).