Greetings All: Pardon the asp tags. I use frontpage extensions for Linux; Win2K client in a VMWare session. It's easier for testing what Windoze users see. My client, and, all... The FORM: <FORM METHOD="POST" action="http://<%=$SERVER_NAME%>/index.html" enctype="multipart/form-data"> ... <input type="file" name="ResumeDoc" value="<%=$ResumeDoc%>"> ... </FORM> ACTION executes the following PHP script: $qry = "INSERT INTO Resumes SET rid = '', email = '$email', FirstName = '$FirstName', LastName = '$LastName', URL = '$URL', resume = '$ResumeDoc', resumehtml = ''"; $link = mysql_connect($host,$luser,$pw); $rs=mysql_db_query($db,$qry,$link); which gets the following result: 105040 Query INSERT INTO Resumes SET rid = '', email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', FirstName = '', LastName = '', URL = '', resume = '/tmp/phpcPu0bL', resumehtml = '' 105040 Quit The Problem: Apparently, the upload works, and, sends the data to /tmp/phpcPu0bL, but this isn't what I want. I'd like to stream it directly into a variable and insert that variable into the resume field. I don't want to write to the file system, at all. Anyone out there inserted a binary file into a field (not LOAD DATA INFILE) from an INPUT type=file submission on a form without touching the file system? I've checked CGI.pm and that writes to the filesystem, also, so I'm not considering it. BTW, I do get the report back from the filesize function: The size of the file was 20480 bytes... But, I could easily count the size of the variable I pulled into the stream to report back doc sizes over the 64Kbyte BLOB limit. Or, SELECT LENGTH(resume). BTW the resumehtml is for a subsequent update using a wvWare -x /usr/local/share/wv/wvHtml.xml $ResumeDoc call to make it searchable and delete the WordDoc from my server. {In case you were curious}. Thanks if anyone's got something that flows from client to MySQL db without ever hitting disk (of course MySQL uses the disk, but, I'm cool with that). Certainly, someone's done this before. Regards, Van ========================================================================= Linux rocks!!! http://www.dedserius.com ========================================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php