Storing Images In MySQL
Introduction
This article is an introduction to using the blob column type in MySQL. The concept is introduced by familiarising users with uploading and storing images in a MySQL table.
Definitely a controversial topic in PHP-land, but at least knowing how to do it will help you make a decision on whether or not it’s for you.
The article covers the following:
- Isn’t this a bad idea?
- What is a BLOB?
- Creating an image table
- The upload form
- Uploading the image
- The
upload()function - Display an image from the database
- Displaying all the information
This article was originally published at http://phpro.org, and is reproduced on PhpRiot with permission of the author, Kevin Waterson.