Re: Hello

The page you gave me didnt help but thanks anyway :) We solved the problem which was dizzing us for days by using the silly command pack("H*", $image) !! Dimitris "Ben Bleything" <bleythbe@mailbox.orst.edu> wrote in message news:000001c10ae1$30a03690$0201a8c0@c1141975c... > Check out http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/florian19991014.php3Tj–úÕ—zœ > Bî³=ȉ0. It > deals with MySQL, but the concepts should be the same... it sounds like > there are some steps about handling the binary data in a binary-safe > fashion that are getting left out. > > Good luck, > Ben > > -----Original Message----- > From: a [mailto:subbie777@hotmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:33 AM > To: php-db@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DB] Hello > > Hello > > I have an ibm db2 which has jpg images stored as blob fields (about 2M). > I > seem to have a hard time getting them with PHP and presenting them > properly > in the browser. (When I try to save it from the DB2 side, it is stored > ok). > > Though i actually get the image i ask for, when i try to output it to > the > browser i get a series of characters from 0 to F instead (Hex) like > this: > > FFD8FFFE000857414E473202FFE000104A46494600010101025802580000FFDB0 > > Saving it to a file with has no result either. The file seems to be > created, > it has the appropriate size but trying to view is contents results in > getting an unsupported type of image which the browser fails to present. > > Using the different types of the odbc_binmode function of PHP > (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.odbc-binmode.php), returns the > same > results. I try odbc_longreadlen since i get a blob field but the output > is > similar to the previous. > > I also asked in a DB2 newsgroup > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=el&safe=off&ic=1&th=17ccf5cbc4d0762c, > > 4&se > ekm=5261b6a0.0107090324.6ab27060%40. > > Thats why we added a field containing a JPEG format of the image but it > doesnt seem to work either. > > > Thanks in advance. > > Dimitris Glezos > > > High Performance Computing Laboratory > University of Patras > > > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >