Re: Fw: Data from SQL to a string in a useable format

This may be way out in left field... but since no one else seems to be answering, Have you considered using something like base64_encode? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php That would change your image to plaintext without any characters that need to be escaped. The when you retrieve it you would just run it through base64_decode and viola! I have never tried this, and like I said there may very well be a better solution. (Especially since the DB is usually the bottleneck and base64_encode actually makes the file bigger) Let me know if that helps Sheridan ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Bell <jbell@barkingrat.com> To: PHP Users <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:51 AM Subject: [PHP] Fw: Data from SQL to a string in a useable format Ok, never got a reply yesterday, so I figured I'd resend this..... can this even be done? __________________________________ How can I pull my data from my SQL db, and store it as a string so that it can be used? Specificly, I'm working with images. When the images are stored in the database, the only pre-processing that is done is: $img = addslashes(fread(fopen($userfile, "r"), filesize($userfile))); (* note: $userfile is the file identifier from my upload form.) I want to pull the data out of the database and store it in a string, so that I can use imagecopyresampled to create a thumbnail, but I just can't seem to get it to work.... please help!!!!!! Thanks, Jason