Re: pulling images from a database

If you want to be efficient, store only the image metadata in the database (path, filename, creator, date, dimentions, format, etc) in the database. Keep the actual data as a file. -- Regards, Gary "SuperID" Huntress ======================================================= FreeSQL.org offering free database hosting to developers Visit http://www.freesql.org ""Trent Reimer"" <trentreimer@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9ebsd5$q0m$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... > I'm trying to find an efficient way to pull images from a database. What I'm > saying is that the actual image file itself is being stored as a Binary > Large OBject in the database (MySQL) and that I want to use it on a web > document. > > The only way I've been able to do it so far is to call an external script > such as: > > <img src="grab_image.php?image=picture1.jpg"> > > where "grab_image.php" goes and connects to the database and spits out the > header information and then the binary data for the applicable picture. > > Is there a more efficient way to do this? Is there any way to embed the > image information directly in the document without having to call an > external script for each image? > > > > -- > 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 >