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Storing Images In MySQL

By Kevin Waterson, 30 May 2005, MySQL, PHP (3 comments)

What Is A Blob?

Binary Large Object. In short, a blob is a field type for storing Binary Data. MySQL has four BLOB types:

  1. BLOB
  2. TINYBLOB
  3. MEDIUMBLOB
  4. LONGBLOB

For more information on this we highly recommend you read the MySQL manual section on BLOBs.

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May 30, 2005
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Jan 18, 2008
Updated listing 5 to not include non-existent conf.php