I tried it once. But did not find it reliable all the time. Here are my suggestions why you should do or not: * Your database dumping will be difficult if you have sensitive data, (it slow-downs the performance). * Not all images are well-stored. * there is a file-size limitation, normally, 64 KB. * You will need to dynamically generate the image-headers and relative scripts to show the image back to the browser, for temporarily fwrite an image file before using '<img src="...' tag. Rather, make an upload script, and store the ID of the database there. Bimal Poudel The links collector. Please visit http://links.bimal.net.np/ for details. Do you have good links to share? Email me. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com