Thanks Martin, it worked just fine.
It turns out that with all I have tried I was actually close.
$this->layout = 'ajax'
AND
Router::url
made all the difference in the world.
I nearly fell out of my chair when the image displayed :)
- Ed
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Martin Radosta <martinrado...@gmail.com>wrote:
> An approach
>
> in the controller:
>
> function show_image($recordId) {
> $this->set('data', $this->Model->findById($recordId));
> $this->layout = 'ajax'
> }
>
>
> the view show_image.ctp:
>
> Configure::write('debug', 0);
> header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); //assume jpg image
> echo $data['Model']['blob_file'];
>
>
> your view:
>
> echo $html->tag('img', array(
> 'src' => Router::url(array('controller' => 'your_controller', 'action'
> => 'show_image', $userInfo['Photo'][0]['id']))
> )
> );
>
>
> Regards
>
> MARTIN
>
>
>
>
> On 05/13/2010 12:26 AM, Ed Propsner wrote:
>
> Besides the size there should be no diff between "binary" and "blob", I was
> just thinking that perhaps Cake handled them differently.
> I played around with media view and it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking
> for.
>
> I have it narrowed down to the headers and I can get the photo to display
> but it has to be in it's own view and even then I have to echo the image
> directly in the controller action ... this isn't working for me. I never
> usually store photos directly to the database but in this instance i feel it
> better serves my purpose without taking a hit on performance.
>
> Ideally I would like to access the image through it's $hasMany assoc and
> nest it in an image tag but I'm at a loss for how to pull that off with
> Cake.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ed Propsner <crotchf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been toying with this one for a while now and I'm not really getting
>> anywhere.
>>
>> I'm trying to display a photo stored in db as type "blob". With
>> conventional PHP I would normally store the photo with type "binary" and
>> never had any issues ... Blob is not going so well.
>> I figure the problem has something to do with content type but MVC is
>> confusing me a bit when it comes to headers or media views. It seems
>> straightforward enough but I think I'm going about the wrong way (I'm not
>> using media view or headers at this point).
>>
>> In my Users Model I set up a $hasMany assoc.
>>
>> var $hasMany = array(
>> 'Photo' => array(
>> 'className' => 'Photo',
>> 'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
>> 'conditions' => array('Photo.profile' => 1, 'Photo.private'
>> => 0),
>> 'limit' => '1',
>> 'dependent'=> true
>> )
>> );
>>
>> Rendering the photo is the problem.
>>
>> > View
>>
>> $html->tag('img', array(
>> 'src' => $userInfo['Photo'][0]['file']
>> )
>> )
>>
>> the "file" part of the array is empty:
>>
>> [Photo] => Array
>> (
>> [0] => Array
>> (
>> [file] =>
>> [user_id] => 1
>> )
>>
>> )
>>
>> I tried a lot of different things but nothing worked the way I want.
>> What is the proper way to go about this?
>>
>> - Ed
>>
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