Ron,
If your hell bent on storing the image data. :P
I would say base64 the data and use a blob or text
then read it out using something like..
$image = '<img src="data:'.$image_data.'" />';
echo($image);
I would also say your individual image max size should be 50k or less.
If your storing product images for a catalog for instance, dont store
image data, use the url instead.
If its ui images for a couple of web pages, then storing the image
data wouldn't be a bad thing.
As long as the total size for all of your images is reasonable.
Your call.
Best,
Karl
On Mar 19, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
Hey Ron,
I don't know how others feel, but I say save yourself a headache and
dont store the image data, just the url to the image on the server.
image_url – VARCHAR 100
Best,
Karl
On Mar 19, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Ron Piggott wrote:
Hi All
I don’t understand how to save an image to a mySQL table based on
the following form. I am trying to do this using Prepared
Statements. All the fields except the image file itself save in
the database. Right now I have $file as the variable when binding
the values. What should it be? Ron
===
<form action="add_my_image.php" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="file">Filename:</label>
<input type="file" name="file"><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>
===
mySQL table structure:
===
reference – INT 10 auto_increment primary
caption – VARCHAR 250
image_type – VARCHAR 100
image_size – INT 10
image_name – VARCHAR 100
image – LONGBLOB
===
Prepared Statement:
===
# mySQL query
$query = "INSERT INTO `my_images` ( `reference` , `caption` ,
`image_type` , `image_size` , `image_name` , `image` ) VALUES
( NULL
, :caption , :image_type , :image_size , :image_name , :image );";
# apply query to Prepared Statement
if($stmt = $dbh->prepare( $query )) {
# bind variables
$stmt->bindValue(':caption', 'Test Caption', PDO::PARAM_STR);
$stmt->bindValue(':image_type', $_FILES["file"]["type"],
PDO::PARAM_STR);
$stmt->bindValue(':image_size', $_FILES["file"]["size"],
PDO::PARAM_INT);
$stmt->bindValue(':image_name', $_FILES["file"]["name"],
PDO::PARAM_STR);
$stmt->bindValue(':image', $file, PDO::PARAM_STR);
# execute query
if ( $stmt->execute() or die(print_r($stmt->errorInfo(),
true)) ) {
# retrieve auto_increment value
$new_record_reference = $dbh->lastInsertId();
}
}
===
Ron Piggott
www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info
Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com
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