On Tuesday 13 March 2007 22:09, Tijnema ! wrote: > On 3/13/07, Bruce Gilbert <webguync@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/13/07, Tijnema ! <tijnema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > So you just need to set the content-type and output > > > add this to the bottom of the script: > > > header("Content-Type: ".$encodeddata); > > > echo $title; > > > > > > If i understand you right. > > > > > > Tijnema > > > > Thanks, > > > > I changed the code around some and now have: > > [php] > > <?php > > //check for validity of user > > $db_name="bruceg_mailinglist"; > > $table_name ="image_holder"; > > $connection = @mysql_connect("db_address", "uasername", "password") > > or die (mysql_error()); > > $db = @mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die (mysql_error()); > > > > $img = $_REQUEST["img"]; > > > > $result = @mysql_query("SELECT * FROM image_holder WHERE id=" . $img . > > ""); > > > > if (!$result) > > { > > echo("Error performing query: " . mysql_error() . ""); > > exit(); > > } > > while ( $row = @mysql_fetch_array($result) ) > > { > > $imgid = $row["id"]; > > header("Content-Type: ".$encodeddata); > > echo $title;} > > > > ?> > > [/php] > > > > and in the HTML > > <center><img src="image.php?id=1" width="200" border="1" alt=""></center> > > > > but I am getting a MySQL error > > "Error performing query: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check > > the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right > > syntax to use near '' at line 1" > > > > -- > > > > ::Bruce:: > > You changed your html code, you have id=1, and in your PHP code you > are requesting img, so change > <center><img src="image.php?id=1" width="200" border="1" alt=""></center> > to > <center><img src="image.php?img=1" width="200" border="1" alt=""></center> > > But i must also say, it is NOT safe to input data from ?img= directly > into your database, someone could do a SQL injection right away with > this code!. He's not using image.php to insert. Earlier he mentioned using phpmyadmin to insert the image, that was the way I used too. First learn to display an image, this way its easier to know if any upload script you make up later is working correctly. > > Then about this piece of code > while ( $row = @mysql_fetch_array($result) ) > { > $imgid = $row["id"]; > header("Content-Type: ".$encodeddata); > echo $title; > } > I hope for you that there's only one item with this id, if not, there > would come an error again, so a while loop is not needed, and second, > now you don't define $encodeddata and $title anymore, try this piece > of code instead of the one above: > > $row = @mysql_fetch_array($result); > header("Content-Type: ".row['mimetype']); > echo $row['filecontents']; > > ps. Reply to the full PHP list, not just me... -- --- Børge Kennel Arivene http://www.arivene.net --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php