I agree with this method. i have not yet seen an advantage of storing blobs in a database. Is there one? i'm sure those on this list would have an opinion if there was one. personally, i like storing all this stuff on the file system. Jeff "Alex Francis" <afrancis@camerondes To: php-db@lists.php.net ign.co.uk> cc: Subject: Re: blob 01/07/2003 05:18 PM Please respond to "Alex Francis" Why not upload the PDF file to a files directory and just put the path and filename in your database. "Natividad Castro" <ncastro@cots.com> wrote in message news:KOEFIKCPMIBOPFPNHJHPAEEDCHAA.ncastro@cots.com... > Hi to all, > I want to be able to load PDFs into mysql DB, but I'm not very familiar with > the blob data type? > Can someone point me on the right direction how to do this? > > Thanks in advance > Nato > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php