Re: how can i store images in a database?

2003-07-09 Thread Peter Burden
Mike Brum wrote: I've been preparing some notes for my students on how to do this (using PHP/MySQL), if you're interested have a look at http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/sst/php/extra/images1.html - I've only just put these notes together so if you can see any errors please let me know before I

Re: how can i store images in a database?

2003-07-09 Thread cronix
thanks a lot!!! cheers christian You'd want to use a BLOB (binary large object) if that's what your goal is. But if you're using this for a web application I'd highly suggest that you instead save images to a directory and make a reference to the path in the database. If you have many BLOB inse

RE: how can i store images in a database?

2003-07-09 Thread Mike Brum
You'd want to use a BLOB (binary large object) if that's what your goal is. But if you're using this for a web application I'd highly suggest that you instead save images to a directory and make a reference to the path in the database. If you have many BLOB inserts or selects on a site, your datab