Hi, It's amazing that my previous post has raised so much consideration about the fact to store or not pictures into DB. However, none of those posts answered to my question... How can i retrieve and display those pictures to my PHP pages ? Basically, on my PHP page I have some texts and I would like to extract from DB the pictures to display. Therefore, set the header to mine JPEG or GIF does not allow to have text also. So please, how can i do to display pictures from DB, when my PHP page also include texts and other images (from filesystem) ? In fact i would like to do something like a thumbnail... thanks a lot, -- Alain ------------------------------------ Windows XP SP2 PostgreSQL 8.1.4 Apache 2.0.58 PHP 5