that did it! Thank you very much Patrick Hatcher Macys.Com Legacy Integration Developer "Cornelia Boenigk" <poppcorn@cornelia-b To: "PGSQL+PHP" <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Patrick Hatcher" oenigk.de> <PHatcher@xxxxxxxxx> cc: 10/23/2002 05:36 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] How do I display an image? Please respond to "Cornelia Boenigk" Hi Patrick Before storing the binary data in the BYTEA-Field use pg_escape_bytea($imagedata) After retrieving the imagedata from the table you must remove the slashes the above function added. Use stripCslashes(). $image = stripcslashes($imagedata); This works for me;-) pg_escape_bytea() is available since php 4.2.0. regards Conni