For real-life example, check out http://cdbaza.ultracgis.com, and check out the filename of the thumbnails images. I'm SELECTing those images from the MySQL database.
That's how it's done: 1_ Create a table to store your JPGs, and the column that holds JPG data should be declared as BLOB CREATE TABLE images ( image_id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUT_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, image BLOB NOT NULL ); 2_ Now you are ready to load the JPG data into the image column. I use Perl to open the JPG file and dump the contents into the table, and the resulting query looks something like: INSERT INTO images SET image="here goes contents of the JPG file"; Perl code that does this job would look like: local ($/); sysopen (JPG, "test.jpg", O_RDONLY) or die $!; $dbh->do(qq|INSERT INTO images SET image=?|, undef, <JPG>); close (JPG); Sorry if you don't know Perl, but you should be able to do similar thing in any other language you might be using Good luck! -- Sherzod --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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