Thumbnail in db

Hi all, I tried asking this question on the general list but only got a lot of guff about not storing images in db etc. What I need to do is Store an image in the database, at the same time, create a thumbnail and store it in the database also. I can do this successfully if I wish to store the thumbnail on the files system and then make a thumbnail of it, but I dont seem to be able to get the thumbnail to insert into the db from a string. Is the only way to create the thunbnail to first save it to the file system in a temp dir? Kind regards Kevin -- ______ (_____ \ _____) ) ____ ____ ____ ____ | ____/ / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \____) \_||_| \____) \____) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia